Pondering Quotes

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Nguyễn Nhật Ánh
“Càng lớn tuổi, con người ta càng nói ít đi. Họ nghĩ nhiều hơn.”
Nguyễn Nhật Ánh, Tôi Là Bêtô

Shannon L. Alder
“What if you were wrong? What if everything you ever believed was a lie? What if you missed your opportunity because you didn't know your worth? What if you settled on familiar, but God was trying to give you something better? What if you decided not to go backwards, but forward? What if doing what you have never done before was the answer to everything that didn't make sense? What if the answer wasn't to be found in words, but in action? What if you found the courage to do what you really wanted to do and doing it changed your whole life?”
Shannon L. Alder

P.G. Wodehouse
“I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.”
Wodehouse

Nguyễn Nhật Ánh
“Xưa nay chiến tranh nổ ra cũng chỉ vì miếng ăn. Mặc dù người ta luôn tìm cách che lấp đi bằng những điều cao cả.”
Nguyễn Nhật Ánh, Tôi Là Bêtô

“When they [breasts] are huge, you become very self-conscious...I've learned something though, through my years of pondering and pontificating, and that is: men love them, and I love that.”
Drew Barrymore

“I was well aware of her ghosts. I'd met them, once or twice, during her darkness nights. "I knew you were my one when you wouldn't run," she said. How could I? Of course I stayed, when her ghosts scared my own away. What others were too afraid to see, meant everything to me.”
J. Raymond

“The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet.”
J. Raymond

“It's not about who loves her. It's about how you love her. You have to learn the difference between what she says, and what she means. Don't just make her laugh. Try and understand why she smiles. Plenty have told her she's beautiful, but can you make her feel that way too? There's a difference, see. Compliments might cage her, while empowerment sets her free. My God, what matters to her is not just who flatters her. There's a language to her love you'll need to learn. Speak it true, and I promise you, the best of her, is what you'll earn.”
J. Raymond

“She'll let you put her in her place. But she won't stand for anything worse than first.”
J. Raymond

Erich Maria Remarque
“And in the night you realize, when you wake out of a dream, overcome and captivated by the enchantment of visions that crowd in on each other, just how fragile a handhold, how tenuous a boundary separates us from darkness - we are little flames, inadequately sheltered by thin walls from the tempest of dissolution and insensibility in which we flicker and are often all but extinguished. Then the muted sounds of battle surrounds us, and we creep into ourselves and stare wide-eyed into the night.”
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“She played hard to get, because she was. And it wasn't a game to her to play. She was hard to get, and hard to get. Don't you understand? She was the one that got away. Either way, if she stayed or strayed, you were better for loving her. And if she loved you back, you learned to breathe easy. Like the air in your world was lighter with her in it. We all know that one we will always look back on and wonder "What if?"....She's hard to get, harder to keep, and hardest to forget.”
J. Raymond

Criss Jami
“From time to time
I once wondered how one wanders from time to time
And think up the paradox line
Speak of Epoch's crime
Oh I lied, it hasn't happened yet
But bet you better believe it's such a habit that
I just said that in a past mindset”
Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

Tahir Shah
“Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.”
Tahir Shah, In Search of King Solomon's Mines

Richie Norton
“Two questions I'm pondering:

1. If money didn't exist, would you still chase your dreams?

2. If money didn't exist, would you still keep your job?

If the answer is "YES" to both, you're on track. If the answer is "NO" to either, what needs to change?”
Richie Norton

Dodie Smith
“I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future—and, most unreasonably, I find myself longing for the past more than for the future.”
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

Judy I. Lin
“We all believe we are the center of the universe, but we forget we are merely specks among the stars. Moving through the streams of possible futures, sometimes colliding.”
Judy I. Lin, A Venom Dark and Sweet

“She'll let you put her in her place, But she won't stand for anything worse than first.”
J. Raymond

John Steinbeck
“It was strange to Old Robert that he, who knew so much more than his neighbors, who had pondered so endlessly, should be not even a good farmer. Sometimes he imagined he understood too many things ever to do anything well.”
John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold

Socrates
“...[T]hese people... are my dangerous accusers; because those who hear them suppose that anyone who inquires into such matters... theories about the heavens... and everything below the earth... must be an atheist.”
Socrates, Apology, Crito And Phaedo Of Socrates.

Socrates
“Perhaps someone may say 'But surely, Socrates, after you have left us you can spend the rest of your life in quietly minding your own business.' This is the hardest thing of all to make some of you understand. If I say that this would be disobedience to God, and that is why I cannot 'mind my own business', you will not believe that I am serious. If on the other hand I tell you that to let no day pass without discussing goodness and all the other subjects about which you hear me talking and examining both myself and others is really the best thing that a man can do, and that life without this sort of examination is not worth living, you will be even less inclined to believe me. Nevertheless, that is how it is, gentlemen, as I maintain; though it is not easy to convince you of it.”
Socrates, Apology, Crito And Phaedo Of Socrates.

Socrates
“...[W]e must not let it enter our minds that there may be no validity in argument. On the contrary we should recognize that we ourselves are still intellectual invalids; but that we must brace ourselves and do our best to become healthy... No greater misfortune could happen to anyone than that of developing a dislike for argument.”
Socrates, Apology, Crito And Phaedo Of Socrates.

Anne Enright
“Has the rain a father...
What womb brings forth the ice?
- Job: 38”
Anne Enright, What Are You Like?

“The tongue never rests. It speaks even when we sleep. It speaks through the mind even when the mouth keeps shut”
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Gunnhild Øyehaug
“The lightbulb in my bathroom has blown [...] at night it's dark there in a really weird way, I can stand for ages looking at everything in there, the towels hanging from the hooks, the toothbrush in the glass, the toothpaste, the razor, the shower curtain, and it's like I'm not in the room, like I shouldn't be there, like I'm seeing things how they are when I'm not there, do you understand what I mean? And that I shouldn't be, that somehow I'm a hindrance, but that's almost why I stay there.”
Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories

Mwanandeke Kindembo
“Your thoughts are not yours until when you start pondering upon them.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo

Maya Angelou
“...Jon, larger and more gentle, moved slowly, spoke seldom and seemed to have burdened with the responsibility of pondering the world's imponderables.”
Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman

Joseph Roth
“Taittinger pondered, but he was well aware that no amount of pondering had yet helped him to a sensible conclusion.”
Joseph Roth, The Tale of the 1002nd Night

“We don’t think, we think we think”
Natasha Tsakos

Michael Bassey Johnson
“The day comes with a few things to ponder on, but the night rains upon the mind a thousand thoughts.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

Tiana Smith
“He left, and I was stuck pondering life’s mysteries in a broom closet.”
Tiana Smith, Match Me If You Can

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