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I think therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha 
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
You become what you think about.
- Earl Nightingale
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
As you discover your daily good,
and believe in it, and think about it,
expect it to continue.
- Ernest Holmes
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want,
but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
- Kathleen Norris
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
With every rising of the sun
Think of your life as just begun.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
God is not what you imagine
or what you think you understand.
If you understand you have failed.
- Saint Augustine
Every thought you think
and every word you speak
is affirming something.
- Louise L. Hay
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You are what you think you are.
- Bob Richards
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Think for yourself and question authority.
- Timothy Leary
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace
We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts.
- J. W. Fulbright
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are tempted to judge,
may you be reminded that we are ALL ONE,
and that every thought you think reverberates
across the universe touching everyone and everything.
- from the Simple Truths movie May You Be Blessed
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
What we think, we become.
- The Buddha
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
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