Quotes on Thinking

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

I think you're working and learning until you die.

But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”

Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of _x000D_ security and the delight of adventure.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

The way you see your future determines your thinking today. You're thinking today determines your performance today. Your performance in the today of your life determines your future.

People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.

Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. ... Shall we always study to obtain more, and not sometimes be content with less?

In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It's a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest.

Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.

We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.

Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.

The way to have the life we want is to receive more deeply the life we have. Sometimes we keep our own life at arm's length, thinking we'll wait until circumstances improve before giving it all we've got. But life is just a reflection of consciousness, so it's never going to give any more to us than we give to it. Don't wait for a perfect life; breathe in the life that's already perfect.

All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn't change what I decide to do. I don't choose projects so people don't see me as one thing or another. I choose projects that excite me. I think the problem is that people refuse to understand what drag is outside of their own belief system.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.