Thinking Quotes

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“Are you in great physical pain, or is that your thinking expression?”
G.A. Aiken, What a Dragon Should Know

Janet Evanovich
“Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum”
Janet Evanovich, Seven Up

Jim Butcher
“When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.”
Jim Butcher, Storm Front

Bruce Lee
“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way

“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT

I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What was?
And
What if?

I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.

I really came into being
The day I no longer cared about
What the world thought of me,
Only on my thoughts for
Changing the world.”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Haruki Murakami
“...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.”
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

Eckhart Tolle
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.”
Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Erik Pevernagie
“There is nothing either ' good or bad ' but ' thinking ' makes it so. It is the "perception" that makes things what they are. Good and bad is in our mind. It is our mindset, our mental attitude that determines how we will interpret and respond to situations.
Erik pevernagie - ("Is that all there is ?")”
Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie
“Material and technical changes are mostly quite visible. But less visible are the changes in the mind of the people, their way of thinking, their conception of the world and the quality of their fears. ("Horizon and Vision" )”
Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie
“When we are able to break free from the imprisonment of our little, small self-thinking and dare to face the essence of life, we recognize we are never at home with ourselves. We are always on the road. By challenging the unknown and the unidentified we are capable of opening our skyline. ("Transcendental journey")”
Erik Pevernagie

Lloyd Alexander
“Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.”
Lloyd Alexander, The Iron Ring

“Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.”
Carroll Bryant

Erik Pevernagie
“When the brain becomes too tired, the mind stops decrypting the perceptions in our mental world and surrenders willingly to the unguarded moments of life.
For some time, the safeguards of our thinking pattern weaken and discontinue the decoding of the chips of daily reality.
The mind picks the instants which are above suspicion, pure and innocent. ("Uber alle Gipfeln ist Ruh" )”
Erik Pevernagie

Thomas Henry Huxley
“I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.”
Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Erik Pevernagie
“Better thinking out loud than suffocating from frustration. ("The upper lip must never tremble" )”
Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie
“An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not able to deal with the fragmentation of our self and assess the deconstruction of our identity, a corny incident could easily capsize our being. A misinterpretation of facts and expectations may perturb our awareness and unsettle our perception. When “I” and “me” don’t get along very well, the road to oneness may be very often bumpy. (“Alors, tout a basculé”)”
Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie
“Many men remain spoiled boys that have never grown up. Women are prepared to raise them and take pain with patience, both as a condescendant contribution to supercilious compassion and as a proof of the eminence of their sense of worth. ("Prêt-à-penser" / "Ready-to-wear thinking")”
Erik Pevernagie

Maggie Stiefvater
“I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.”
Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

Tamsyn Muir
“Anyone can learn to fight. Hardly anyone learns to think.”
Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions

Erik Pevernagie
“If thinking and reason crack under pressure of emotional convulsions or when commissioned facts are resulting from fibs and fake constructions, truth may be in great peril. ( ”Blame storming”)”
Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie
“When grief impounds our thinking and eats our brains, it seeps through all the cracks of our daily living. Only the soothing wind of comforting words may counter the withering twilight and the frostiness of darkness. ("All the words he always wanted to tell her.")”
Erik Pevernagie

Voltaire
“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
Voltaire

Joel Osteen
“What you keep before your eyes will affect you.”
Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

Erik Pevernagie
“Believing is easy, but thinking is difficult. Thinking about why we believe, this is still more complicated. (" No longer in the middle")”
Erik Pevernagie

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

Sam Harris
“According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.”
Sam Harris

John Maynard Keynes
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
John Maynard Keynes