Thought - Quotes
If you aren`t the woman I think you are, then this isn`t the world I thought it was.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? I Thought I was the only one.'
If you were half as funny as you thought you were, my boy, you`d be twice as funny as you are.
Life is pain! I wake up every morning in pain! Work is pain! You know how many times I just wanted to give up? How many times I`ve thought about ending it?
When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them!
If life in itself were a valuable possession and decidedly preferable to non-existence, the gate need not be occupied by such terrible guards as death and its terrors. But who would persevere in life as it is, if death were less frightful? And who could even so much as endure the thought of death, if life were a joy?
Sometimes I felt that there were too many painful things in this world, and if I thought about them all, my heart might break in two.
The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought.
Death is nothing. I`m not afraid of nothing. But time passing is something different. I`m terrified of time passing. I tremble at the thought of my little girl growing up. I can`t face my son growing stronger than me and helping me up the stairs. I quake at the prospect of looking at my adult children`s faces with eyesight worse than I have now.
I was having a bad day, and my friend said, "Go wash your hair." I thought it was really silly - but it made me feel so much better. It might be a small thing, but it works. Washing it off and starting over.
A scientist must (...) be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.
When you have a thought, it is coupled with a physical change in your mind that is specific to that thought, and it has an instant gravitational ripple effect throughout the entire universe.
Just as one wouldn`t draw a lasting conclusion about oneself on the basis of a brief experience of indigestion, one needn`t do so on the basis of how one has thought or behaved for vast stretches of time in the past. A creative change of inputs to the system - learning new skills, forming new relationships, adopting new habits of attention - may radically transform one`s life.