Deep Thought Quotes - Page 9

• Hate is a lack of imagination.

  Graham Greene

  Hate, Acceptance, Imagination

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• Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Philosophy, Work

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

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• Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.89, Penguin

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• There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

  Daniel Handler

  Sad, Book, Reading

  "The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 3)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), February 25, 2000.

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• He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Forgiveness, Wise

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.64, Beacon Press

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• Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

  Francis Chan

  God, Christian, Religious

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.22, David C Cook

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• Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Hurt, Future, History

  Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• You get into the biggest fights with the people you care about the most, because they are the relationships you're willing to fight for.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Relationship, Meaningful, Wisdom

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• People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.

  F. Matthias Alexander

  Inspirational, Life, Future

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• If we are not full of Him we have nothing to offer to anyone else.

  Heidi Baker

  God, Christian, Religious

  Heidi Baker, Shara Pradhan (2008). “Compelled by Love”, p.147, Charisma Media

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• No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.

  Rick Riordan

  Love, Relationship, Hate

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• To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down. Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.

  James Salter

  Book, Writing, Past

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• Haters are like crickets. Crickets make a lot of noise, you hear it but you can’t see them, then right when you walk by them, they’re quiet.

  Israel Houghton

  Hater, Noise, Hearing

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• If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

  Regina Brett

  Funny, Relationship, Women

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• Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.

  Brian Tracy

  Men, He Man, Circumstances

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• Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 03, 2014

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• To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

  Shane Koyczan

  Discovery, Average, Firsts

  Twitter post from Aug 29, 2013

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• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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• If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Talking, Long

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• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

  Hector Berlioz

  Life, Music, Death

  "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.

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• Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 05, 2017

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• Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.

  John Sinclair

  Inspirational, Life, Tattoo

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• Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way.

  Koichi Tohei

  Art, Philosophy, Hands

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