Thoughts Quotes
5764 Thoughts quotes by 2727 unique authors
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Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with…
— Carol Shields
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I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts…
— Karen Marie Moning
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There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out." "Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Sometimes, your eyes see something your brain doesn't. You pick up a nmewspaper and yourhead gives you a phrase that you didn't consciously read yet.…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah
— Mitch Albom
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To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they arrived, and then…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not…
— Lisa See
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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of…
— Oscar Wilde
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
— Nikki Giovanni
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And then it hit me. One of those evil thoughts siblings get because, well, that's what we do. Looking over my shoulder I said, "You…
— Jennifer Rardin
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I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine…
— Wendell Berry
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Branches grew from his hands, his hair. His thoughts tangled like roots in the ground. He strained upward. Pitch ran like tears down his back.…
— Patricia A. McKillip
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You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed,…
— Virginia Euwer Wolff
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But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my"…
— Alan Watts
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On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk…
— John Connolly
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Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other…
— Thomas Merton
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It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.
— Walter de La Mare
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I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
— Stephen Covey
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She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the…
— Joanne Harris
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Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the…
— Virginia Woolf
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Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of…
— Gustave Flaubert
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