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  Thoughts Quotes - Sleep is like a cat, It only comes to you if you ignore it “As we are whiling away days of idleness, time may flow rashly through the screen of our thoughts and veil the relevance of individual fragments in our story. The clock of reality can arrest us, though, and compel us to confront the demands of the truth. ("Non mais, t'as vu l'heure !")” ― Erik Pevernagie   “She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.” ― Janet Fitch   “She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.” ― Albert Camus   “It’s the beating of my heart. The way I lie awake, playing with shadows slowly climbing up my wall. The gentle moonlight slipping through my window and the sound of a lonely car somewhere far away, where I long to be too, I think. It’s the way I thought my restless wandering was over, that I’d ...

  Thoughts Quotes - To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions   “Wittgenstein likes to assert: "Whereof we cannot speak we must be silent". But skilfully using our hands and manipulating our thoughts can be plausible options to make ourselves understood. So, if we can’t say it, we can show and depict it. Whereof we cannot speak we can paint! ("Happy days are back again")” ― Erik Pevernagie   “Habit rules the unreflecting herd.” ― William Wordsworth   “There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.” ― Fleur Adcock   “If brains could have orgasms, I'm pretty sure this was what it w...

  Thoughts Quotes - Wherever I go, I meet myself   “Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever.” ― Omar Khayyám, Quatrains - Ballades   “The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure... I'm lonely... I'm a failure... I'm lonely...) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love   “Paper is more patient than man.” ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl   “What business had I to...

  Thoughts Quotes - Freedom is an illusion   "Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden   “We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.” ― Albert Einstein   “Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.” ― Dejan Stojanovic   “The most complicated skill is to be simple.” ― Dejan Stojanovic   “He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits   “For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.” ― Lady Gaga   “There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets ...

  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 c...