Thoughts Quotes

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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it… — Seneca the Younger
Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating what… — Marc Hauser
All that you achieve and all that you fail to achieve are the direct results of your thoughts. — John Spence
Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here. — Henry David Thoreau
You have a right to your thoughts and feelings. Your feelings are always valid. — Iyanla Vanzant
We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return… — Joan Halifax
The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with… — Dinaw Mengestu
The world so clamors for action that men and women devote little time to thinking. Many believe in secondhand thinking. They find it easier to… — James F. Byrnes
It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men… — Alexis de Tocqueville
O most glorious God ... Direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb, and purge my… — George Washington
Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable.… — George Washington
Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter. — Thomas Paine
I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the… — Yousuf Karsh
There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without… — Robert Adams
The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple… — Robert Adams
When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound… — Galen Rowell
Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber. — Terry Pratchett
You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were. — Ray Bradbury
Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the… — Uta Hagen
I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters, at least in this kind of… — Charles M. Schulz

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