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Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I read a book that impresses me,
I have to take myself firmly in hand
before I mix with other people;
otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
- Anne Frank
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
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Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour
when every one has to throw off his mask?
Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked?
Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight
in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it?
I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others
that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;...
In every man there is something which to a certain degree
prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself;
and this may be the case in so high a degree,
he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life
which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself.
But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love,
and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay
Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Every thought you think
and every word you speak
is affirming something.
- Louise L. Hay
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You become what you think about.
- Earl Nightingale
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Know that life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
With every rising of the sun
Think of your life as just begun.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts.
- J. W. Fulbright
A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is when
what you think,
what you say,
and what you do
are in harmony.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Cheer for endings - whether goals have been met or not -
whether the ending is tidy or ragged.
Without endings, there would be neither the opportunity
nor the incentive to think new thoughts,
and to begin great new projects.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
You are what you think you are.
- Bob Richards
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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
God is not what you imagine
or what you think you understand.
If you understand you have failed.
- Saint Augustine
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
As you discover your daily good,
and believe in it, and think about it,
expect it to continue.
- Ernest Holmes
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Benjamin Spock
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
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