Best Wholesome Thoughts
205 Wholesome quotes by 165 unique authors
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All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her…
— Toni Morrison
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One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there to simply make you more clever,…
— Dalai Lama
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the…
— Rachel Carson
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Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were in a previous…
— Chuck Klosterman
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Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.
— Joseph Heller
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Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me that…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks…
— Dean Koontz
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There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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She was suddenly aware of him in a way she hadn't been before. Hayward was good-looking in a sweet and wholesome way.
— E.D. Baker
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[in reference to turkey bowling] He [Tommy] squinted and picked his target, then took his steps and sent the bird sliding down the aisle. A…
— Christopher Moore
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
— Fernando Pessoa
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So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome character, and you…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How good to be…
— Christopher Isherwood
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There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and diet—medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in…
— Dion Fortune
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Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury,…
— William Shakespeare
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I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It…
— Stephen Fry
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I signed on for the role of ‘boyfriend,’ not ‘conscience.’ If you want wholesome and ethical, you’ll have to look elsewhere. But I promise that…
— Rachel Vincent
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I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach…
— Anne Bronte
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If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter - - - for always there will be greater and lesser persons than…
— Sylvia Plath
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To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.
— Seneca the Younger
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Chubby Checker lost pounds by demonstrating how to move as if you were 'drying your back with a towel' − the substitution of the word…
— Jan Murray
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