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Thoughts and thinking

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay