Thoughts Quotes

5764 Thoughts quotes by 2727 unique authors

This business of friendship was a curious thing, almost as difficult to learn as the busuness of acting. Sometimes you were expected to tell the… — Gary L. Blackwood
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy. — C.S. Lewis
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts… — Amy Tan
God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone. — William Butler Yeats
We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for strength… — Joan Bauer
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for… — Norman Vincent Peale
Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself. — C.S. Lewis
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or… — Jack Kornfield
We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much… — Charles Dickens
But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior… — Isaac Asimov
Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And… — Walt Whitman
Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen… — James M. Barrie
Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no… — Victor Hugo
When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is not on the… — Hermann Hesse
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. — Eckhart Tolle
It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may… — Joseph Conrad
Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. — Thomas Fuller
He looked like the love thoughts of women. — Zora Neale Hurston
The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will… — Rhonda Byrne
Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going… — Corrie Ten Boom
The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this… — Karl Barth

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