#thoughts

This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don't drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink... mug of water. ↗

— Russell Brand

#funny #humor #interview #thoughts #funny

...finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them. ↗

— Paolo Giordano

#love #thoughts #touch #love

Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place. ↗

— A.J. Jacobs

#thoughts #gossip

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#introspective #thoughts #introspection

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#difficulty #discoveries #established #great #greatest

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#coin #current #fresh #genius #grows

Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#clothes #deserve #dress #more #only

I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought. ↗

— Peter Steele

#day #doing #every #five #forty

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#case #certain #epidemic #infection #thought

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#free #information #kind #life #living