Thoughtful Quotes - Page 21

• We're thrilled to join Google. With their support, Nest will be even better placed to build simple, thoughtful devices that make life easier at home, and that have a positive impact on the world.

  Tony Fadell

  Home, Simple, Impact

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• The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

  Leo Rosten

  Kindness, Purpose, Matter

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• That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Simple, Islam

  Mark Twain (2015). “Christian Science”, p.27, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.

  Robert Breault

  Kindness, Addiction, Shy

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• We shouldn't knee jerk anything. The Iraqi government a few years back, when they had a chance to sign an agreement that would keep some of our presence there, refused to do it. So we've got to be very careful and thoughtful before we do anything.

  Carl Levin

  Military, Government, Agreement

  "GOP on Iraq: We told you so" Jeremy Herb and Burgess Everett, www.politico.com. June 12, 2014.

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• Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on the temple of the gods. To know himself, Linnæus declared to be the essential indisputable distinction of man above all other creatures. I know, indeed, in study nothing more worthy of free and thoughtful man than the study of himself. For if we look for the purpose of our existence, we cannot possibly find it outside ourselves. We are here for our own sake.

  Karl Ernst von Baer

  Science, Past, Men

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• All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Originality, Solitary

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• One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.

  Samuel Smiles

  Running, Mother, Fashion

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• The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Smoking, Style, Mouths

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Book of Snobs: And, Sketches and Travels in London ; [Character Sketches]”, p.242

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• Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us a place where anyone who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come and join us in building a better and more rational world. Jimmy Wales Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

  George Sand

  Kindness, Regret, Intelligent

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• We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Attitude, Kindness, People

  "The Challenge of Marriage".

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• It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Loving Life, Tragedy

  Twitter post from May 21, 2013

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• I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Love Life, Loving Life

  "Bill Moyers Journal", billmoyers.com. November 21, 1973.

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• It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

  Hugh Black

  Kindness, Lasting Happiness, Missing

  Hugh Black (1901). “Culture and Restraint”

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• Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Motivational, New Year

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• When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

  Earl Nightingale

  Life, Travel, Kindness

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• Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It's really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.

  Doris Day

  Helping Others, Views, Differences

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• You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Loving Life, Rewards

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

  William Faulkner

  Broken Heart, Giving Up, Kindness

  Light in August ch. 13 (1932)

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• Meditation helps you stay in a calm, clear-headed state so that when challenges come at you, you can deal with them like a ninja - in a calm thoughtful way. When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.

  Ray Dalio

  Meditation, Challenges, Hijacking

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• Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Loving Life, Trying

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• I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Fall, Loving Life

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• Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it be great if every child heard good speech and received thoughtful answers to their questions instead of 'be quiet' or 'go to bed'?

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Children, Flower

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Love, Men, Space

  Woodrow Wilson (1915). “When a man comes to himself”, p.12, Рипол Классик

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• All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction can't be thoughtful, or present some interesting or provocative ideas to make us think. But if you want to present an intellectual argument, nonfiction is a better tool. You can drive a nail with a shoe but a hammer is a better tool for that. But fiction is about emotional resonance, about making us feel things on a primal and visceral level.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Successful, Thinking

  "A conversation with Game of Thrones author George RR Martin". Interview, www.smh.com.au. August 1, 2011.

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