Thoughts
Quotes - Secret of Dignity
“The
universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you
what you demand with your actions.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“My
feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.”
―
Dejan Stojanovic
“What
the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes,
instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels
particularly instantaneous.”
―
John Green, Looking for Alaska
“When
it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good
ones.”
―
Guillaume Musso, Will You Be There?
“To
hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.”
―
Dejan Stojanovic
“You've
never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we
actually live are of any value.”
―
Hermann Hesse, Demian
“Sometimes
I feel as though there are two me's, one coasting directly on top of the other:
the superficial me, who nods when she's supposed to nod and says what she's
supposed to say, and some other, deeper part, the part that worries and
dreams... Most of the time they move along in sync and I hardly notice the
split, but sometimes it feels as though I'm two whole different people and I
could rip apart at any second.”
―
Lauren Oliver, Delirium
“Sometimes
we have thoughts that even we don’t understand. Thoughts that aren’t even
true—that aren’t really how we feel—but they’re running through our heads
anyway because they’re interesting to think about.
If
you could hear other people’s thoughts, you’d overhear things that are true as
well as things that are completely random. And you wouldn’t know one from the
other. It’d drive you insane. What’s true? What’s not? A million ideas, but
what do they mean?”
―
Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
“What
we do comes out of who we believe we are.”
―
Rob Bell, Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and
Spirituality
“What
exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which
people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?”
―
John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“Watch
your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your
actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they
become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
―
Lao Tzu
“To
fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance.”
―
Sanober Khan
“If
someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want
me, the world is nothing but endings.”
―
Nayyirah Waheed
“I
remember when your name was just another name that rolled without thought off
my tongue.
Now,
I can’t look at your name without an abundance of sentiment attached to each
letter.
Your
name, which I played with so carelessly, so easily, has somehow become sacred
to my lips.
A
name I won’t throw around lightheartedly or repeat without deep thought.
And
if ever I speak of you, I use the English language to describe who you were to
me. You are nameless, because those letters grouped together in that familiar
form….. carries too much meaning for my capricious heart.”
―
Jamie Weise
“Never
underestimate the power of thought; it is the greatest path to discovery.”
―
Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your
Ability
“I
shall take the heart. [...] For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is
the best thing in the world.”
― L.
Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“I
am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.”
―
Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
“The
things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”
―
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Reality
is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.”
―
Stephen Richards
“The
moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer
the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness.
Awareness and ego cannot coexist.”
―
Eckhart Tolle
“It
is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.”
―
Dejan Stojanovic
“No
brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their
heads by mistake, and they don't Think.”
―
A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
“...and
you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a
cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.”
―
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
“Nothing
ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine,
nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn’t perfect. You can’t get all the way
inside someone else… But imagining being someone else, or the world being
something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills the fascists”
―
John Green, Paper Towns
“One
of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that
thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for
one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad
one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into
your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over
it as long as you live... surprising things can happen to any one who, when a
disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to
remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly
courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.
