"You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."

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"You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."

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

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Thought, Truth, Language, Perception, Mindfulness

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Emotion, Nothing

"Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?"

Stephen King, American Author

Thought, Time, Paradox, Humor, Curiosity

"Knowledge is life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Thought, Knowledge, Life, Growth, Insight

"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Thought, Dictatorship

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Thought, Thoughts, Words

"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."

Jean de la Bruyere, French Philosopher

Thought, Thoughts, Excellence, Spirit

"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Thought, Running, Question, Exercise

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Thought, Thoughts, Heaven, Words

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

"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

"Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?"

"Knowledge is life."

"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."

"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

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"Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him."

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"He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure."

"The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs."

"You cannot travel within and stand still without."

"The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become."

"As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."

"All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts."

"You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."