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I think therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes
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It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With every rising of the sun
Think of your life as just begun.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Every thought you think
and every word you speak
is affirming something.
- Louise L. Hay
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
You are what you think you are.
- Bob Richards
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
They can because they think they can.
- Virgil
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
You become what you think about.
- Earl Nightingale
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Know that life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Think for yourself and question authority.
- Timothy Leary
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts.
- J. W. Fulbright
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations,
but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,
but with what it is still possible for you to do.
- Pope John XXIII
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay
and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.
I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism,
but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists
to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
- Jimmy Carter
Many important things shouldn't be done half-way.
Think of getting married, having children,
starting a business, changing your career.
There are times to gather your courage
and make the leap, the whole leap.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a being of free-will,
and I CHOOSE each and every action I make,
every thought I think, and every emotion I feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had
because they didn't have the talent
or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
- Nelson Mandela
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