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• God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Thinking

• I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Thoughts
  • Dreams
  • I Can

• Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Why
  • Thoughts
  • Walk

• The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Think
  • Change
  • Thoughts

• The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Evil
  • Never
  • Thoughts

• Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • Long
  • Writing

• Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Thoughts

• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Thoughts
  • More
  • Furniture

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Art
  • Hope
  • Community

• The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Quality
  • Thoughts
  • Language

• Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Thoughts
  • Feel

• The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and their mouths full of its praises.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Thoughts

• Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Energy
  • Heaven
  • Thoughts

• You will be free of the world's turbulence as soon as you stop taking your thoughts so seriously.

  

  Dan Millman
  • World
  • Free
  • Stop

• Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Bad
  • Fear
  • Thoughts

• I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.

  

  Joe Haldeman
  • Thoughts

• The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Kids
  • Truth
  • Health

• The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.

  

  Bela Karolyi
  • World
  • American
  • Rest

• My mom passed down to me her old Levi's denim jacket. When I left it on a plane, I was devastated. I've never been able to find anything with quite the same cool, faded look.

  

  Lily James
  • Mom
  • Cool

• I've signed autographs as Natalie Portman. I was at a Film Festival party where someone asked if I was her, and I didn't want to embarrass them, so I signed the autograph as her. I hope she doesn't mind.

  

  Liane Balaban
  • Mind
  • She
  • Hope

• Hit the 'delete' button when you have unrighteous thoughts.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Thoughts
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