Thoughts Quotes

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There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think… — Oscar Wilde
As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty… — Michael Palin
Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives… — Louise Erdrich
We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words — Vincent Van Gogh
For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever. “Really?” he asked in a tone I’d never heard from him before. Softer. Vulnerable. Adam… — Patricia Briggs
Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever… — Joseph Conrad
Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary… — Natalie Goldberg
...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of… — Janet Frame
To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an… — C.S. Lewis
And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at… — C.S. Lewis
What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Maybe I’m just tired. (Geary) People only say that when they’re not really willing to deal with the issue at hand. It’s like when you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. — Hermann Hesse
When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it… — Zora Neale Hurston
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a… — Alan Watts
He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In… — Mitch Albom
We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to… — Mother Teresa
You’re the one who unleashed him. (Savitar) Yeah, well, let’s move on from the blame game. I was having suicidal thoughts and it seemed like… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Not many people carry out thoughts they know going into it are stupid…morons not included. (Apollymi) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put… — Aristotle
If I’m not back in a few hours…well, I don’t want to think about that. I might change my mind about doing this. I’m thinking… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product… — George Orwell
In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a… — Margaret Wise Brown
You have such interesting thoughts. No wonder witches are ephemeral. You drive yourself crazy. You should simply do what you want without the soul-searching. It… — Kim Harrison

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