"The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking
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"If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening."

Barzan, George on thoughts and thinking
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"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

Aurelius, Marcus on thoughts and thinking
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"In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties."

Bacon, Francis on thoughts and thinking
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"There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?"

Johnson, Samuel on creation   

"I can, therefore I am."

Weil, Simone on existence   

"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."

Updike, John on existence
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"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on existence
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"We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life."

Renard, Jules on existence
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over."

Emerick, John J. on thoughts and thinking
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"It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work."

Edison, Thomas A. on thoughts and thinking
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"The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds."

Duranty, Walter on thoughts and thinking   

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."

Disraeli, Benjamin on thoughts and thinking
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"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men."

Dewey, John on thoughts and thinking
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"I think therefore I am."

Descartes, Rene on thoughts and thinking
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"He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."

Colton, Charles Caleb on thoughts and thinking   

"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"Money is usually attracted, not pursued."

Rohn, Jim on money
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"Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people."

Rohn, Jim on communication
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."

Rohn, Jim on mediocrity
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"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."

Rohn, Jim on job
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"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions."

Rohn, Jim on decisions
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"You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."

Rohn, Jim on association
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"Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea."

Rohn, Jim on ideas
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"Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well."

Rohn, Jim on maturity
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"How long should you try? Until."

Rohn, Jim on perseverance
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"Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future."

Rohn, Jim on experience
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"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."

Rohn, Jim on success
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"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."

Leacock, Stephen B. on advertising
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"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us."

Trilling, Lionel on liberals   

"We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose."

Orwell, George on middle class   

"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."

Angelou, Maya on life
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"Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well."

Angelou, Maya on responsibility
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"Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater."

Angelou, Maya on work
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"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."

Rohn, Jim on hope
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"There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives."

Rohn, Jim on influence   

"Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed."

Rohn, Jim on influence
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"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins."

Rohn, Jim on learning
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"The more you know the less you need to say."

Rohn, Jim on talkativeness
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