Thoughts Quotes

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We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores… — Annie Dillard
Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague,… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the… — Baroness Orczy
A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her… — Ian Mcewan
There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
to one whose elastic and vigorous thoughts keep pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not the labors and attitudes… — Henry David Thoreau
Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion… — Ian Mcewan
Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your… — Mary Baker Eddy
I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn… — Saul Williams
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? — George Carlin
You can not entertain weak, harmful, negative thoughts ten hours a day and expect to bring about beautiful, strong and harmonious conditions by ten minutes… — Charles F. Haanel
Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a… — Lorrie Moore
From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and… — Arthur Golden
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is… — Mark Twain
You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own,… — Elizabeth Berg
She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends. — Willa Cather
Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect. — William Shakespeare
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself. — Oprah Winfrey
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through… — Mark Twain
As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream. — Charlotte Bronte
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages… — Cornelia Funke
They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are… — Rebecca Solnit

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