Thoughts Quotes
5764 Thoughts quotes by 2727 unique authors
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All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I have to keep moving I don't want to think I'm going to work all day today I don't want to stop Don't want to…
— Henry Rollins
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Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers.
— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
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Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me…
— James Joyce
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He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely…
— Milan Kundera
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Eleanor's voice was below zero. 'My finest horse to whichever faerie in this room brings me that woman's left eye.' My thoughts exactly.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this…
— Brandon Sanderson
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You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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One doesn’t become a witch to run around being helpful either…. It’s to escape all that – to have a life of one’s own, not…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some…
— A. J. Jacobs
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Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything.
— Rhonda Byrne
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Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic…
— Walter Isaacson
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Oh, God, help me! And I walked faster, my thoughts pursuing me, and I began to run, my frozen shoes squealing like mice, but running…
— John Fante
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Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love.
— William Shakespeare
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Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.
— Shannon Hale
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Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You…
— Salman Rushdie
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To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are…
— Dalai Lama
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Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to…
— John Ortberg
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Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut…
— Sylvia Plath
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A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or…
— John Dos Passos
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The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you,…
— R. Scott Bakker
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Here are some passing thoughts. Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing it burning. Imagine seeing the grocery store’s checkout girl grow horns. Imagine…
— Douglas Coupland
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