Deep Thought Quotes

• When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

  Leo Burnett

  Love, Success, Stars

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

  Plato

  Persuasion, Knows, Seeking

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• The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

  George R. R. Martin

  Flames, Shadow, Brightness

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1248, Bantam

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• In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.

  Elie Wiesel

  Giving Up, Order, Giving

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• How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?

  Byron Katie

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Twitter post from Jul 24, 2013

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• When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Reflection, Thinking

  Byron Katie (2010). “Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)”, p.329, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

  Richard Whately

  Passion, Air, Words Of Wisdom

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• If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

  Napoleon Hill

  Desire, Opinion, Ifs

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.132, Penguin

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• There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Healing, A Loss For Words, Left

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Adolescent”, p.43, Vintage

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• You are who you are by virtue of the company you keep.

  T. B. Joshua

  Company You Keep, Virtue, Company

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• Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

  Dale Carnegie

  Success, Fear, Not Giving Up

  Dale Carnegie (2004). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Inspirational, Nature, Animal

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• You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

  Leeza Gibbons

  Custody, Today, Tomorrow

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• Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.

  Byron Katie

  Unreality

  Twitter post from Jan 02, 2017

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• Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

  Alice Sebold

  Inspiring, Dream, Destiny

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• The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

  Nido R Qubein

  Inspirational, Pain, Regret

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• It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

  J. C. Watts

  Love, Motivational, Strength

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• Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Gentleman, Devil, Sometimes

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.239

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• Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Nature, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.292, Harvard University Press

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  The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

  Pythagoras

  Thoughtful, Thought Provoking, Greek

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• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Positive

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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• It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

  Edmund Hillary

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

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• But nothing is more opaque
  than absolute transparency.

  Margaret Atwood

  Opaque, Transparency, Absolutes

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The biggest battle in life is with yourself

  Dennis Prager

  Battle, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Jul 30, 2013

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