Thoughtful Quotes - Page 33

• How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophical, Love Is, Catholic

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• Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

  Brian Tracy

  Thankful, Gratitude, Appreciation

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jun 26, 2014

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• Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Philosophical

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, Open Road Media

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• Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Reflection, Self, Shells

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Aug 15, 2013

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• A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Mind

  "Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times".

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• That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Love Is, Punishment

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• If you feel good about your clothes, you get excited. And I want women to feel good when they're wearing my clothes - not just because they're beautiful, but because the process and every step involved in making them is incredibly thoughtful. You can be proud wearing them.

  Maria Cornejo

  Beautiful, Feel Good, Proud

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I see young people being dismissed for supposedly wanting only "stupid" and "easy" material, or that they don't have an attention span longer than three minutes. I disagree with all those statements; I just think they aren't true. I'm saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don't know if I'm doing that, but I'm trying.

  Bo Burnham

  Stupid, Thinking, Our Generation

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy, stricken places in my soul, And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Morning, Soul, Ghost

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.

  Terence McKenna

  Race

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• And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wild—they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, Ideas, Sorrow

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• Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suffering, Way, Dies

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• Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward," I repeat. "Outward and up," she says.

  Patrick Ness

  Dad, Blow, Air

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the first person was who said this was okay. After spending all that money on a bachelorette weekend, a shower, and often a flight across the country, they expect you to go to Williams Sonoma or Pottery Barn and do research? Then they send you a thank-you note applauding you for such a thoughtful gift. They're the one who picked it out!

  Chelsea Handler

  Country, Weekend, Shopping

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• Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Ideas, Music Is, Prose

  Edgar Allan Poe (1984). “Poetry and Tales”, p.17, Library of America

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• She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.

  Gary Paulsen

  Book, Library, Answers

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• I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working for our white family. It never occurred to us to ask. It was everyday life. It wasn't something people felt compelled to examine. I have wished, for many years, that I'd been old enough and thoughtful enough to ask Demetrie that question. She died when I was sixteen. I've spent years imagining what her answer would be. And that is why I wrote this book.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Book, Years, White

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• sensitive," I tried. Sam translated, "squishy." "creative." "Dangerously Emo." "thoughtful." Feng shui.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Emo, Creative, Feng Shui

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.154, Scholastic Inc.

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• The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone turns into a terrible fear that I will have no friends, I will be alone in this world and in my life. I will eventually be so crazy from this black wave, which seems to be taking over my head with increasing frequency, that one day I will just kill myself, not for any great, thoughtful existential reasons, but because I need immediate relief.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Crazy, People, Black

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Normal. She wasn't normal. A girl Graced with killing, a royal thug? A girl who didn't want the husbands Randa pushed on her, perfectly handsome and thoughtful men, a girl who panicked at the thought of a baby at her breast, or clinging to her ankles.

  Kristin Cashore

  Girl, Baby, Husband

  Kristin Cashore (2008). “Graceling”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• ...Generally people don't recomend this type of book at all. It is far too interesting. Perhaps you have had other books recomended to you. Perhaps, even, you have been given books by friends, parents, teachers, then told that these books are the type you have to read. Those books are invariably described as "important"- which in my experience, pretty much means that they're boring. (words like meaningful and thoughtful are other good clues.)

  Brandon Sanderson

  Meaningful, Teacher, Book

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• Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field.

  Penelope Trunk

  Funny, Careers, Fields

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• The work is primarily subject-driven.  All decisions flow from there. The photographs are all made in response to a unique subject, in particular context, at a specific moment in time. The thoughtful preparedness that defines my working method actually facilitates spontaneity and allows me to embrace surprise. I always have a game plan but view it as merely the jumping off point.

  Gregory Heisler

  Unique, Jumping, Views

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• We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short on explication, but its stories suggest that introversion plays yin to the yang of extroversion; that the medium is not always the message; and that people followed Moses because his words were thoughtful, not because he spoke them well.

  Susan Cain

  Book, Play, People

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.61, Broadway Books

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• If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the disproof was sitting before her in the form of a gray-eyed prince with a thoughtful set to his mouth that she found quite distracting.

  Kristin Cashore

  Wise, Fall, Sitting

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.165, Penguin

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