When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.
Farkas BolyaiTags: science politics fate thought mathematics
The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.
Vera NazarianTags: world stories dreams story thought dream storytelling memory creation actions memories acting thoughts story-telling speaking acts dreams-of-the-compass-rose enacting shaped shaping telling the-world
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.
Anne BrontëTags: truth writing thought biography
Keep your heart clear
And transparent,
And you will
Never be bound.
A single disturbed thought
Creates ten thousand distractions.
Tags: honesty thinking authenticity thought meditation
Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. He has no automatic knowledge of what is good for him or evil, what values his life depends on, what course of action it requires. Are you prattling about an instinct of self-preservation? An instinct of self-preservation is precisely what man does not possess. An 'instinct' in as unerring and automatic form of knowledge. A desire is not an instinct. A desire to live does not give you the knowledge required for living. And even man's desire to live is not automatic: your secret evil today is that that is the desire you do not hold. Your fear of death is not a love of life and will not give you the knowledge needed to keep it. Man must obtain his knowledge and choose his actions by a process of thinking, which nature will not force him to perform. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of history.
Ayn RandTags: life man choice human-nature thought instincts
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?
Tags: friendship love people philosophy thought possibility essence important
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: thought attitude leadership
for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space and time.
Stefan GrabińskiTags: reality insanity fantasy fiction thought fantastic
How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.
Sylvia PlathTags: thought frailty human-heart
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.
Eckhart TolleTags: thinking happiness psychology thought emotion thoughts situation cognitive-distortions
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