Quotes on Thinking

Every girl on the planet has insecurities. It helps me to know that some of the most beautiful people in the world wake up some days and don't think they're pretty. As sad as that is, it's good to know that a problem you think is your own is actually something every girl faces. Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear.

It's pretty unhealthy to obsess over what people think about you.

I think your life is full of first loves because every time you love someone new, you love them in a different way.

Love is one of those things that should be so simple. You don't need to think about it and over analyze it when it's good.

I think I’ve developed this pattern of running away when it comes time to fall in love and stay in a relationship.

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'

Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make a steady effort, I think we can overcome any form of negative conditioning and make positive changes in our lives. But we need to remember that genuine change doesn't happen overnight.

Do the things you think you cannot do. Do all the good you can, by all the means available, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, all the times you can, for as long as ever you can. Our own feelings of helplessness are our own worst enemy.

To think well is to serve God in the interior court.

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.

They make a secret pact with themelves never to think about the future.

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.

I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot.

The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.

My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body. I want women to know that it's ok. That you can be whatever size you are and be beautiful inside and out.