thoughts quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
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"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
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"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
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"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."
912
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."
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"In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business."
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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
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"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
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"The trick is to become less identified with your thoughts, to not take them so seriously, to see them as 'happenings' rather than 'the way things really are.'"
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"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."
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"I saw that dreams don’t respond to thoughts of someday, but only to brave actions and turbulent transitions."
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"Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true."
760
"The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts."
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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
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"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."
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