Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.

Think for youself but not because I said so!

To be great in life, you must be determined. You can only discover yourself when you are self motivated .

She kept forcing herself to remember the entire conversation, playing it back and playing it back, all the way through, forcing a finger down her memory’s throat.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

What you powerfully holdIn your thought-worldWill make you eitherA street beggarOr a great king.

Looked at again and again half consciously by a mind thinking of something else, any object mixes itself so profoundly with the stuff of thought that it loses its actual form and recomposes itself a...

You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what he writes himself.

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man’s guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

The brain is not nourished on beans and truffles but rather the food manages to reconstitute the molecules of the brain once it has been turned into homogeneous and assimilable substances, which potentially have the...

…the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.

Learn to live from inside to outside, bring out those magnificent estates within you and live in them.

The only way to make a library safe is to lock people out of it. As long as they are allowed to read the books ‘any old time they have a mind to,’ libraries will...

[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for...

Opportunities may surface clearly, but it takes a positive mind to see them. Positive people think and think possibilities even in difficulties and failing situations.

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

Boring is the right thought at the wrong time.

We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul.

…It expands; it only destroys because it broadens; even so, thought only destroys because it broadens. A man’s brain is a bomb,” he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull...

Each “way of thinking” has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon.

I miss being the age when I thought I’d have my shit together by the time I was the age I am now..

Nothing is a waste of time unless you think it is.

I wonder about people who say they haven’t time to think. For myself, I can double think. I find that weighing vegetables, passing the time of day with customers, fighting or loving Mary, coping with...

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.

Let your action manifest your thought, your belief and your passion.

Thoughts are ghosts of emotions.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

With no one to confide in, she’d held the argument inside her own head and naturally found a way to dissolve facts into concepts and concepts into explanations that in the end explained nothing at...

A manager is not a successful manager until he succeeds in managing managers successfully.

I’ve been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

you know things, without knowing how you know, but you know it is true

in the past” and ignored, but in doing so, you sweep it under a rug where it doesn’t go away with time – it becomes time itself, and takes on the illusion of life as...

Affliction caused by the tongue is worse than that caused by the strike of the blade of a sword.

Wrong thinking will take your life the wrong way, channeling your thoughts to the right direction will cause you to soar in life.

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will...

Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty.

Novels for me are how I find out what’s going on in my own head. And so that’s a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other...

Your opinion of your mental capacity may be great, but if your idea of intelligence is crude, your intelligence-producing thought will also be crude, and can produce only crude intelligence. It is therefore evident that...

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

so many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions

Our thoughts create our future.

You can go as far as your thoughts takes you.

but that shadow self of hers wasn’t so sure. The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it poisoned the entire stream.

An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.

Don’t love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow.

The more you believe in the power of thought, and the more you listen to your breath, the greater changes you can create in your life.

The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.