Thoughtful Quotes - Page 6

• What is to give light must endure burning.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.57, Souvenir Press

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• Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.

  Susan Sontag

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Kissing

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• Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Winning, Balance And Harmony

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.36, North Atlantic Books

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• The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Thinking

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Action, Indolence

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• I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.

  Ina Garten

  Chemistry, Brown, Shows

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• Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Literature, Earnest

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• Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

  Arthur Golden

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

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• My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.

  Ellie Goulding

  Four, Busy, Curious

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

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• The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, War, Famous Inspirational

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.18, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Give back in some way. Always be thoughtful of others.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Giving, Way, Giving Back

  "Five minutes with Jackie Joyner-Kersee". Interview With Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. May 2, 2012.

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  Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

  Garrison Keillor

  Strength, Success, Encouraging

  "Lake Wobegon Days". Book by Garrison Keillor, 1985.

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• A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Patriotic, Government, Historical

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Patriotic Addresses in America and England from 1850 to 1885, on Slavery, the Civil War and the Development of Civil Liberty in the United States”

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• Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Heartbreak

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

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• The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Smart, People, Promise

  "Ashton Kutcher Channels Steve Jobs In The Best 'Teen Choice Awards' Acceptance Speech Ever". Ashton Kutcher's acceptance speech for Teen Choice Awards at Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, www.businessinsider.com. August 11, 2013.

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• Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy tools, not chosen by thoughtful people, to be used only when there is no choice, and with a calm, still mind, without enjoyment. To enjoy using weapons is to enjoy killing people, and to enjoy killing people is to lose your share in the common good. It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented. It is right that a victor in war be received with funeral ceremonies.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  War, People, Funeral

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Jerome P. Seaton (2009). “Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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• I was a huge 'Star Trek' fan. I loved the 'Twilight Zone' growing up. In the future, I hope to create some thoughtful, sci-fi drama.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Stars, Growing Up, Drama

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• Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Believe, Discovery

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• I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?

  Charlaine Harris

  Thinking, Psychics, Interesting

  Charlaine Harris (2001). “Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.84, Penguin

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• One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Perspective, Missing, Events

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• I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Writing, Soul

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• The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Loving Life, Stories

  "Phenomenal: 12 Pearls of Wisdom From Maya Angelou" by Tai Goodwin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2014.

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• Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

  C. S. Lewis

  Perfect, Majesty, Levels

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.160, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages, in their sight and smell, in their touch and feel to the questing hand, and in the intellectual music which they sing to the thoughtful brain and loving heart, books are to me the best of all symbols, the realest of all reality.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Reading, Heart

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Kindness, Purpose, Statements

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