#thou

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#deep-thoughts #thinking #world #change

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

— Coco Chanel

#dignity #empowerment #freedom #independence #individuality

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#suzanne-collins #thoughtful #courage

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#diary #i #never #read #sensational

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste. ↗

— Voltaire

#books #fame #independent-thought #judgment #opinions

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself. ↗

— Emily Watson

#entertained #grew #i #lots #meant

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts. ↗

— James Allen

#direct #direct result #fail #life #result

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#character #easily #form #individual #nature

The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#comes #entirety #fire #glows #life

When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#any #closely #come #described #explicit