Thinking Quotes - Page 36

• Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Ambition, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.140, Penguin

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• The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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• There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and feel a disgust for those amusements to which they are obliged to submit. For my own part, I confess that I know not how to conform myself to these rigid notions. I prefer something more simple, which I also think would be more pleasing to God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Simple, People, Mourning

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• It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Sleep, Night, Men

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• Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

  Francois Fenelon

  Easily Offended, Infirmity

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• I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

  Frances Harper

  Needs, Politics, Voters

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• My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Friends, Powerful, Prayer

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Prayer is a condition of mind, an attitude of heart, which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking, in sighing or in audible words.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Attitude, Heart

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• There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know.

  Mongkut

  Knowledge, Not Sure, Knows

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• Physical beings want things to be the same. They want people to think the same. You work rather hard at sameness, but you will never win that battle because, from Nonphysical, diversity is known to be the most beneficial part of the game.

  Esther Hicks

  Change, Winning, Games

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• Each and every component that makes up your life experience is drawn to you by the powerful Law of Attraction's response to the thoughts you think and the story you tell about your life. Your money and financial assets; your body's state of wellness, clarity, flexibility, size, and shape; your work environment, how you are treated, work satisfaction, and rewards - indeed, the very happiness of your life experience in general - is all happening because of the story that you tell.

  Esther Hicks

  Powerful, Communication, Law Of Attraction

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You are the creator of your own reality, and so you are not in jeopardy. You do not need to control the behavior of others in order for you to thrive. Your attention to things that you think they do that keeps you from your thriving is, in fact, what keeps you from your thriving... It is not what they do to you; it's what you do to you in fear of what you think that they will do to you.

  Esther Hicks

  Reality, Order, Facts

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• Should any man tell you that a mountain had changed its place, you are at liberty to doubt it if you think fit; but if any one tells you that a man has changed his character, do not believe it.

  Mehmed the Conqueror

  Believe, Character, Men

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• There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Time, Men

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• always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one language and that is of self. Ego always uses the other; love is ready to be used, love is ready to serve.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Love, Self, Ego

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• In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Time, Waste, Sin

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• The mind is trained from a very young age to think that life moves from one worry to the other or from one pain to another, never from one joy to another. If you feel there is something wrong with what you are seeing, then you should look back in at yourself because what you see outside is only a reflection of what is inside you.

  Swami Nithyananda

  Life, Pain, Moving

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• Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.

  Angelina Love

  Spiritual, Teacher, Healing

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• It is a simple truth that if we identify ourselves as being fundamentally pure, strong, and capable we will actually develop these qualities, but if we continue to think of ourselves as dull and foolish, that is what we will become.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Strong, Truth, Simple

  Thubten Yeshe (2005). “Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Knowing, Mind, Eastern

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• Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them.

  Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

  Done, Favors, Sometimes

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• There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run through a set of vanities, in the declension of his age, he knows not what to do with himself, if he cannot think; he saunters about from one dull business to another, to wear out time; and hath no reason to value Life but because he is afraid of death.

  Gilbert Burnet

  Running, Men, Vanity

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• We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, there is nothing more dangerous than justice in the hands of judges, and a paint brush in the hands of a painter! Just think of the danger to society! But today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets because we no longer admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, War, Hands

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• No matter what the issue is, don't try to justify why you don't feel good. And don't try to justify why you should feel differently. Don't try to blame whatever it is you think the reason is that's keeping you from feeling good. All of that is wasted effort. Just try to feel better right now.

  Esther Hicks

  Healing, Feel Better, Issues

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• Do you have to think specific positive thoughts about your body in order for your body to be the way you want it to be? No. But you have to not think the specific negative thoughts. If you could never again think about your body and, instead, just think pleasant thoughts - your body would reclaim its place of Well-being.

  Esther Hicks

  Healing, Order, Want

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2008). “Manifest Your Desires”, p.355, Hay House, Inc

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