Thought Quotes (page 217)

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• life
• food
• thoughts

So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground. William Shakespeare

• thoughts
• look
• she

He sat looking down at his hands--his fine strong unscarred hands. Suddenly and unreasonably he thought of another pair of hands--his mother's--with the knuckles enlarged, the skin broken--expressive--her life written on them. Scars. She had them. Edna Ferber

• thoughts
• fate
• fated

You conquer fate through thought Henry David Thoreau

• personality
• thoughts
• personal

When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins. Carolus Linnaeus

• encouraging
• eating
• encouragement

I had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and saying "Ah!" in an encouraging way, as if he could see something I couldn't and then I would find words to tell him how I was so scared, as I were being stuffed farther and farther into a black, airless sack with no way out. Then he would lean back in his chair and match the tips of his fingers together in a little steeple and tell me why I couldn't sleep and why I couldn't read and why I couldn't eat and why everything people did... Sylvia Plath

• thoughts
• greatness
• inspirational

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors Martin Heidegger

• question
• thoughts
• life

Though Charles II both craved and enjoyed female companionship till the end of his life, there is no question that by the cold, rainy autumn of 1682 his physical appetites had diminshed considerably. The Duchess of Portsmouth was, after all, more than twenty years his junior; and there comes a time in nearly every such relationship when the male partner is simply unable to fully accommodate the female partner. Or as Samuel Pepys tartly noted in his diary, "the king yawns much in council, it... Antonia Fraser

• thoughts
• total
• totally

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts Earl Nightingale

• cold
• letting go
• dead

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire? John Cage

• love
• thoughts
• she

To love makes one solitary, she thought. She could tell nobody, not even Septimus now... Virginia Woolf

• friends
• friend
• work

They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other... S. E. Hinton

• single
• lost
• thoughts

She turned to stare out the window, lost in a thousand thoughts, not a single one of which Danielle could guess. Jodi Picoult

• free
• mindfulness
• thoughts

A spring never free from the pressure of some foreign body at last loses its elasticity; and so does the mind if other people’s thoughts are constantly forced upon it. Arthur Schopenhauer

• question
• small
• true

Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write about in books. But his judgment went through me like a sword and questioned my very right to exist. And it was true, I had always realized it; I hadn't the right to exist. I had appeared by chance, I existed like a stone, a plant or a microbe. My life put out feelers towards small pleasures in every direction. Sometimes it sent out vague signals; at other times I felt... Jean-Paul Sartre

• selfish
• humanity
• thoughts

If there were any way for me to become human for you - no matter what the price was, I would pay it. Isat very still absorbing this. Edward thought he was being selfish. Stephenie Meyer