#thought

"Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?"

"The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man."

"We are not our mind or our thoughts. As long as we believe we are our mind, we are open to third-party control."

"I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don't go the way we might like them to, it's a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner."

"He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass."

"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."

"The difficulties and challenges in your life are the lessons you need to learn to grow and development."

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)"

"As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition."

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking."

"Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result."

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

"Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more."

"Live to learn to love. Learn to love to live. Love to live to learn so that you may live the life that you yearn."

"His shelf. Good. Noodle dust. Decaying brain collecting dust. Must insert it back in skull—what was I thinking?"

"Insecurities have the ability to shape and mold our minds to live with everything that’s bad; like crying on the inside, while smiling on the outside…thus creating pain…but, alas, I have the answer; forget about what you thought and enjoy (embrace) what you feel"

"Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it."

"The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance onOur SOULS."

"Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education."

"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."