#thinking

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years. ↗

— Byron Katie

#suffering #thinking #thought #truth #change

Things yet unknown will change the way you think. ↗

— Toba Beta

#way-of-thinking #yet-unknown #change

Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. [Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006] ↗

— Harper Lee

#communication #computers #critical-thinking #modern-life #reading

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. ↗

— Humphry Davy

#great #instrument #language #only #thinking

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#existence #life #reason #thinking #death

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#country #depressed #different #different way #eat

You should not try to live without thinking and feeling, for then you are only a piece of machinery, not a human being. Even if it hurts. Even if the thing you have to think of are sad, think them through; live them through and write or tell me. Only when we completely work through our thinking and feeling do we live a full life. ~From a letter to Diet Eman from Hein Sietsma ↗

— Diet Eman

#full-life #humanity #living-life #reality #sadness

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#dreams #epiphany #re-direction #re-thinking #dreams

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #motivational #new-thought #positive-thinking

There are no prizes for defying yourself. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money