Deep Thought Quotes - Page 11

• Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.

  Zig Ziglar

  Encouragement, Quality, Alive

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 30, 2014

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• Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.

  Bill Johnson

  Lying, Influence, No Hope

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• The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations.

  Jim Rohn

  Two, Temptation, Possibility

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 21, 2012

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  To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.

  George MacDonald

  Giving, Misinterpretation, Materials

  George MacDonald (1985). “The Curate's Awakening”

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• In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

  Vince Poscente

  Nature, Lakes, Feet

  Vince Poscente (2002). “Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery”, Invinceaility Series

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• We are all on the stairs, my friend; some of us are going down, some us are going up!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stairs, My Friends

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• If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

  Frank A. Clark

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Reflection, Words Of Wisdom

  On Old Age VI (transl. W. A. Falconer)

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• If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?

  Timothy Keller

  Salvation, Ifs

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• If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?

  Timothy Keller

  Picks, Ifs, Dislike

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• How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?

  Jim Morrison

  Guts

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  You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Wise, Peace

  Gandhi, Mahatma “Inspiring Thoughts”, Rajpal & Sons

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• Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience-that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible-that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Errors, Giving

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.999, Penguin

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• You can get over a broken past if you decide to believe that there's nothing in your past that can keep you from having a great future.

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, Past, Broken

  Twitter post from May 30, 2015

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• I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.

  Simon Pegg

  Cheer, Mistake, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Simon Pegg from Aug 11, 2014

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• There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

  James Lovelock

  People, Genocide, Commit

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• Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Peace, Nature

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Spiritual, Self

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• It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

  Don Herold

  Education, Smart, Ignorance

  Don Herold (1924). “So human”

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• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  Oliver Herford

  Moss, Rolling, Stones

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• Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Taken, Knowledge

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1588, Delphi Classics

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• In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Men, Target, World

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• Great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in one another. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Love Is, Two, People

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2015

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• They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Thinking, Sweat, Pyramids

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• Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

  Johannes Brahms

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

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