#thoughts

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#fallacy #founded #grow #happier #happiest

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! ↗

— Alexander Pope

#brain #chain #chambers #countless #hidden

I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#author #being #both #funeral #i

You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better. ↗

— Dennis Quaid

#anymore #anything #better #call #feel

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#believes #constantly #death #dialogue #does

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#everyone #himself #his #judge #marriage

A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#little #million #mind #thoughts #through

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#burners #conceal #concealing #ever #evidence

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. ↗