Thoughtful Quotes - Page 5

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  Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Workout, Columbus

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.421, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Believe, Love Is, Men

  "The Soul of a Nation: Culture, Morality, Law, Education, Faith". Book by Bernard J. Coughlin, p. 27, 2012.

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• Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of the group's normative power to shape the opinions of the followers who conform without thinking things through, they are often taken at face value. The persistent minority forces the others to process the relevant information more mindfully. Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Taken, Thinking, Skills

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• Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Firsts, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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• Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Love Is, Shining

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Part II-II, Question 188), 1485.

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• Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Heart, Loving Life

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• Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Laughter, Kindness

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• No one has ever become poor by giving.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Morning, Kindness

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• For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeatOn fields of triumph dirges of defeat;And still we turn on gala-days to treadAmong the rustling memories of the dead.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Memories, Heart, Triumph

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.

  Jimmy Wales

  Real, Party, Struggle

  "The Birth of Wikipedia". Ted Talk, www.ted.com. 2005.

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• We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Thinking, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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• Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

  James Russell Lowell

  Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Kindness

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.2

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• Every thoughtful pin on pinterest has beauty. But not everyone can see.

  Confucius

  Pinterest, Social Media, Pins

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• Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings

  Isaac Watts

  Heart, Thinking, Prey

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.246

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• The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

  Hosea Ballou

  Heaven, Earth, Woods

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• If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Men

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Death, Kindness

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Work, Moments, Thrifty

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A New Complete Edition, Including Miles Standish and Other Poems”, p.620

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• Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

  Hugh Miller

  Encouraging, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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• If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Theresa, or Malcolm X; if a human being dares to be bigger than the condition into which she or he was born-it means so can you. And so you can try to stretch, stretch, stretch yourself so you can internalize, 'Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me.' That's one thing I'm learning.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Dream, Kings

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• I don't Twitter every day. I just think we should be more thoughtful with what we share. I don't care that you're turning a light on right now. That's great and all, but there's got to be a balance there.

  Jeremy Camp

  Thinking, Light, Balance

  "A conversation with award-winning recording artist Jeremy Camp". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Angela Merkel has been focused on the right things. She has focused on the interests of her citizens - and not just in a narrow, short-term way, but in a very thoughtful - Let's make the world a better place for future generations as well - kind of way. Whether it's about climate or migration, she's not afraid to look at the longer-term trendlines and say, OK, we need position ourselves here, even if it doesn't seem obvious - this is the direction we need to go in. People respect that in Merkel, that a politician has a vision for the long term.

  Justin Trudeau

  Long, People, Vision

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The center has had the challenge of always having to be reasonable, balanced. If you're on the right, you can reach to the right; and on the left, you can reach left. But the center hasn't always sold as well in politics - it doesn't fit neatly on a bumper sticker. But what we're seeing is that citizens in countries around the world are realizing that, no, it's more important to be responsible and optimistic and thoughtful about the solutions and not feed knee-jerk, negative emotions.

  Justin Trudeau

  Country, Optimistic, Challenges

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• God cannot suffer - at least not as we do. It has some roots in Greek philosophy: if God is a perfect being, suffering would reduce that perfection, so God cannot suffer. More thoughtful theologians take the phrase in the sense of one of the confessions of faith that talks of God as being "without parts or passions" - he is not physical as we are, and not subject to "passions" in the sense of uncontrollable emotions that can take charge of us at times. God is not "emotional," if that word is used as some kind of weakness.

  Christopher J. H. Wright

  Philosophy, Passion, Emotional

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Heartbreak

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

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