Thoughtful Quotes - Page 18

• Life is not all about accomplishment; it's all about doing, participating, progressing, growing, learning.

  Mike Hernacki

  Kindness, Accomplishment, Progress

  Hernacki, Mike (2001). “The Ultimate Secret to Getting Absolutely Everything You Want”, p.121, Pelican Publishing

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• Mom as it's your birthday
  And, unfortunately, not mine
  Give me some money and I'll get out your hair
  While you have a large glass of wine
  I try so hard to be thoughtful

  John Walter Bratton

  Mom, Wine, Glasses

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• The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Learning, Growth, Problem

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• The best way-the only way-to be truly healing is to be fully present and to stay out of the way.

  Nancy Kyes

  Healing, Way, Best Way

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• If you cannot feed one hundred hungry people, then just feed one really well.

  Mother Teresa

  People, Hungry, Hundred

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• Become the world's most thoughtful friend.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Empathy, Understanding, Listening

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• Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

  Homer

  Wine, Men, Dancing

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• As factual and thoughtful literature began to seep in, against the Nazis' will, and replace the reams of Nazi propaganda, I began to see the German Jew in his historical role, in his good as well as his bad light.

  Martha Dodd

  Light, Historical, Roles

  Martha Dodd (1939). “Through embassy eyes”, New York

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• It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Reflection, Past, Reality

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• A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.

  Ian Harris

  Government, Consideration, Relation

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• Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly

  Hank Green

  Silly, Stills, Excluded

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• There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Two, People

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• In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and economical things and concepts that are meaningful additions to—or sometimes subtractions from—the world we live in. Indeed, design deserves such thoughtful consideration.

  Paola Antonelli

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Responsibility

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• David Corbett has combined his unique talents as a gifted writer and an extraordinary teacher to create a superb resource on character development. Deftly crafted and impeccably researched, The Art of Character is a thoughtful and insightful book that is immensely readable and practical.

  Sheldon Siegel

  Teacher, Art, Book

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• As a divorced parent, working with Dr.Walfish has been a gift. Due to her thoughtful, sensitive and highly educated guidance, I have become a far more aware parent. For over five years, I have applied her practical and customized suggestions, and––wow––it has allowed my amazing daughter and me to grow together.

  Deborah Raffin

  Daughter, Years, Parent

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• To quote a recent customer email, “I really appreciate your thoughtful and professional response. I don’t get that a lot from customer service. Usually, it’s scripted nonsense that makes it seem like I’ve done something wrong. You’ve single-handedly improved my perception tenfold. Someone there ought to give you a pay raise."

  Matt Mickiewicz

  Appreciate, Giving, Perception

  "12 Surefire Strategies to Increase Customer Loyalty". www.businessinsider.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Thinking, Pressure

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.58, Random House

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• Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Future, Past, Differences

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• Thoughts can be revised. Deeds cannot.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Deeds, Action

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• I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Significant, Feels

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• A small boy puts his hand on the wall, and looks down intently as he wriggles his toes. The birth of thought?

  Mason Cooley

  Wall, Boys, Thinking

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• Every few years something new breaks into the circle of my thoughts.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Years, Circles

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• Thought enables us to see Fate coming.

  Mason Cooley

  Fate, Thinking

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• In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Our thinking is a pious reception.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Reception, Pious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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