#w

No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive. ↗

— Richard Carlson

#beats #being #comes #exactly #heart

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness... an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking. ↗

— Richard Carlson

#about #beings #come #consciousness #effects

If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived. ↗

— J. Courtney Sullivan

#life #moving-forward #life

Loo, life is black and white. You don't know what's good for you, because you don't see the black and white! You don't see where the black lines end and where the white lines begin! You're going to grow up to be no good if you keep on that way. It's impractical. I only have one child, and I won't have her growing up to be impractical. I can't think of a worse thing to be than impractical! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#impractical #life-and-living #saint-paul-trois-châteaux- #life

#1487: Hug a cow. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#happiness #hugs #life

I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should react." (p.180) ↗

— Jeff Dixon-The Key To The Kingdom

#life-and-living #life-lessons #why #life

I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#life #suffering #wisdom #wit #life

After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think. ↗

— George Eliot

#growth #life

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#writer-s-block #writing #life

Self-satisfaction is the ultimate thing one can achieve in life. ↗

— Manish Pradhan

#life #satisfaction #life