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• To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Real, Son

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

  George Eliot

  Light, Metaphor, Graves

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.92, Booklassic

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• A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Mean, Attachment

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Giants, Machines, Opinion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives

  Wayne Dyer

  Focus, Ugly, Emotion

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “The Power of Intention”, p.30, Hay House, Inc

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• We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.

  Stephen Covey

  Feelings, Mood

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• All of us remember the home of our childhood. Interestingly, our thoughts do not dwell on whether the house was large or small, the neighborhood fashionable or downtrodden. Rather, we delight in the experiences we shared as a family. The home is the laboratory of our lives, and what we learn there largely determines what we do when we leave there.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Home, House, Childhood

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• Come to us and quackle and quank. Relieve us of our stirrings With your fangs so sharp and bright Take this blood that's always purring. Through our hollow bones it flows To each feather and downy fluff. Quell the terrible, horrid urge that so often prinkles us, Still our dreams, make slow our thoughts Let tranquillity flood our veins. Come to us and drink your fill So we might end our pains. - The Owls at St. Aegolius calling to the bats

  Kathryn Lasky

  Dream, Pain, Blood

  Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole #1: The Capture”, p.136, Scholastic Inc.

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• Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sky, Giving, Mountain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.43, Penguin

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• Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person. We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence.

  Terry Goodkind

  Reality, Body, Legs

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood of the Fold”, p.343, RosettaBooks

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• We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Disturbed

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• Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.

  George S. Clason

  Richest Man In Babylon, Wiser

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.

  Lynne Truss

  Thinking, Intellectual, Degrees

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• Here began countless days of hunting and snaring, fishing and gathering, roaming together through the woods, unloading our thoughts while we filled our game bags. This was the doorway to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hunting, Keys, Fishing

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

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• We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Interesting, Half, Language

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.591, Xist Publishing

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• People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

  Dorothy Day

  People, Effort, Deeds

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• If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique.

  Oliver Sacks

  Real, Unique, Men

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• Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.

  Henry Rollins

  Beautiful, Moon, Jewels

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.311, Villard

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• We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Writing, Thinking, Order

  Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Extinction: A Novel”, p.187, Vintage

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• Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Greed, Mind, Way

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.62, Robert Kiyosaki

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• I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.

  Anais Nin

  Hate, Believe, Judging

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• I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.

  John Lennon

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• We are limited only by our thoughts

  Miranda Kerr

  Miranda Kerr (2010). “Treasure Yourself”, p.6, Hay House, Inc

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• There is a foundation for our lives, a place in which our life rests. That place is nothing but the present moment, as we see, hear, experience what is. If we do not return to that place, we live our lives out of our heads. We blame others; we complain; we feel sorry for ourselves. All of these symptoms show that we're stuck in our thoughts. We're out of touch with the open space that is always right here.

  Joko Beck

  Sorry, Space, Foundation

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• We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, even if our thoughts are sometimes slow to follow- but in the end they do catch up with our hearts and then we think we have made a decision

  Muhammad Asad

  Heart, Thinking, Wind

  Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.80, The Book Foundation

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