Deep Thought Quotes - Page 12

• I not only think but also look and study things carefully. When I travel around, I look at things carefully, make comparisons of what I see. I don't accept things at face value, you cannot trust what you hear or see. Don't jump to conclusions without thinking.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Thinking, Looks, Faces

  FaceBook post by Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad from Jan 26, 2013

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• One of the most important lessons to learn about relationships is that it is not another person’s job to make you happy. Your happiness is not someone else’s job. Until you realize this, you will always be dissatisfied with your relationships. Ultimately, your relationship with others mirrors your relationship to happiness.

  Robert Holden

  Jobs, Mirrors, Important

  Robert Holden (2009). “Be Happy: Release the Power of Happiness in You”, p.181, Hay House, Inc

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• In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.

  Ameen Rihani

  Men, Humanity, Over You

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• What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

  Denis Leary

  Inspirational, Life Is Too Short, Long

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• The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

  Joseph Campbell

  Quests, Release, Ecstasy

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.14, Anchor

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• Don't operate on the heart with a hatchet.

  Jim Rohn

  Heart, Hatchet

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 17, 2013

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• The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Apr 18, 2014

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• If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.

  Jim Rohn

  Philosophy, Errors, Want

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 24, 2017

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• Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, Mind, Trying

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.16, New World Library

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

  Johannes Brahms

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

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• We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

  Jim Rohn

  Kindness, Mistake, Weakness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 13, 2012

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• Don't allow any set back to become bigger than your come back

  Christine Caine

  Bigger

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from May 01, 2013

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• It's not where you start but where you finish.

  April Heinrichs

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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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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• How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

  Robert Browning

  Freedom, Fetters, Seems

  "My Last Duchess and Other Poems".

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• Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.

  Chris Tomlin

  Art, Thinking, Soul

  FaceBook post by Chris Tomlin from Feb 01, 2014

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• A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.

  Simon Sinek

  Responsibility, Leader, Credit

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2013

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• If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a non-supportive root such as fear, anger or the need to 'prove' yourself, your money will never bring you happiness.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivation, Roots, Supportive

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 20, 2015

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  Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

  Pericles

  Courage, Freedom, Words Of Wisdom

  "Homage to Greece". Book by Anglo-American-Hellenic Bureau of Education, 1943.

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• You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Meaningful, Political, Democracy

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• You need to have the courage to fail.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Needs, Failing

  Twitter post from Jul 01, 2013

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• Remember, conflict doesn’t always mean we have to fight against something and tear it apart.... Conflict can also mean we’re fighting for something to make it even better and stronger than it’s ever been.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Mean, Fighting, Tears

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Sep 05, 2016

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• One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

  Dogen

  World, Impermanence

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• However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.

  Deepak Chopra

  Relationship, Mirrors, Moments

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “Path To Love: Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Love You Need”, p.4, Random House

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• Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

  Dennis Wholey

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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