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It's almost funny how horrifying it is to get to know yourself.

— Stephanie Georgopulos, a place for short thoughts that isn’t the bad place

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Everything happens first on the inside before it is revealed on the outside.

— Iyanla Vanzant, via twitter.com

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Would the guys at REI rather be camping right now?

— Stan Smith (voice) (Seth MacFarlane), American Dad!, Season 7: License to Till

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Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore

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Holt: I'm doing a cost-benefit analysis in my head. The benefits outweigh the costs- we have reached an accord.

Peralta: Accords!

— Captain Ray Holt (Andre Braugher), Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Season 2: Halloween II

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Are you taking me off the case? Please don't take me off the case! Because if you take me off the case, that means I'm not working, and if I'm working, it means I have to think thoughts!

— Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom), Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Season 1: I'm So Happy That Josh Is So Happy!

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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

— Arnold Bennett, The Human Machine

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Doubts may grow as shadows loom,
when you're alone with your thoughts.
Plant music, art, pics of the ones you love
in the darkest corners.
Harvest the fruits of your daydreams and rest.
Water and sunlight to the best in you.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda, via twitter.com

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My talents include always thinking about people more than they think about me.

— Daniel Howell, I'm Always The One Who Cares More

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America is a dream.
The poet says it was promises.
The people say it is promises—that will come true.
The people do not always say things out loud,
Nor write them down on paper.
The people often hold
Great thoughts in their deepest hearts
And sometimes only blunderingly express them,
Haltingly and stumbling say them,
And faultily put them into practice.
The people do not always understand each other.
But there is, somewhere there,
Always the trying to understand,
And the trying to say,
‘You are a man. Together we are building our land.’

— Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics)

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I find myself talking to an old straight white guy comedy writer. You can tell he used to be funny but a house in the canyon and an infinity pool have dulled his edges.

— Ryan O’Connell, Snapthots

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The mind is like a parachute. It won’t work unless it’s open.

— Norm Kelly, via twitter.com

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O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. . .

— Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics)

Mind Brain Thinking Thoughts Man Person mind is powerful

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It is the patterns of thought that define our behaviors, assumptions, and expectations, they become the foundation for our understanding of how the world works and what we can/ will/do expect from others.

— Iyanla Vanzant, via twitter.com

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Repetition, practice, study is how to develop muscle, stamina, and mastery. Thought therapy is geared toward developing mental muscles, emotional stamina, and the skills required to master your mind.

— Iyanla Vanzant, via twitter.com

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Your brain can be reprogrammed—no matter how much trauma you may have endured.

— Iyanla Vanzant, via twitter.com

Thoughts Thought Process way of thinking You Can Do It Never Give Up You Will Be Okay

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With the proliferation of thoughts in your head, the goal cannot be to control every single one. That would be futile. Instead, focus on neutralizing your dominant negative thoughts and beliefs.

— Iyanla Vanzant, via twitter.com

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It will take years, not just a couple of months, of education to change their thinking.

— Deng Xiaoping, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

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We must now create an internal prompt that makes us aware that recurring thoughts have landed and are poised to disrupt our sense of peace and well-being.

— Iyanla Vanzant, via twitter.com

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Often, we master thoughts, beliefs, and expectations about the very things we don’t want because of the silent, terrifying, unconscious thoughts that we repeat in our mind.

— Iyanla Vanzant, via twitter.com

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If you want to change the condition and experience of your life, pay attention to every thought and every feeling so that you can make different choices.

— Iyanla Vanzant, via twitter.com

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The role of our inner guide is to lead us toward feelings, thoughts and situations that spark a remembrance of love, because when we recall love we want more of it.

— Gabby Bernstein, via twitter.com

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If we want to free ourselves from the judgment cycle, we have to shine light on the darkness. The way to do this is to witness our judgmental thoughts without judgment.

— Gabby Bernstein, Judgment Detox

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You must be willing to release worn-out thoughts, habits, and situations in order to receive the information Spirit will bring to you.

— Iyanla Vanzant, via twitter.com

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In some people's minds, a casino is going to open and a community is going to be magically transformed from a frog to a prince overnight, ... It's not that simple at all. And if anyone believes so, they're fooling themselves.

— Jim Brown, via www.successories.com

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All five of us have the same heart to protect SHINee. Even after time passes, we hope to be active as SHINee, unless physical reasons stop us.

— Kim Jonghyun, via shineesays.tumblr.com

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Yeah, but what is it that I want? What do I want?

— Gia Carangi, Gia

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If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

— Ted Williams, The Gigantic Book of Baseball Quotations

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I had the idea that people were supposed to love me because I had an interesting mind, a kind heart, and a warm smile. I thought that Lyndon's emphasis on clothes and appearance was the wrong system of values. He used to say that a lot of the people that I met would only see me once, and that the opinion they would form would persist. He wanted them to have a good opinion of me. By the world's rules, he was right. I was wrong.

— Lady Bird Johnson, via www.thoughtco.com

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It doesn’t matter what the rest of us think. At the end of the day, all that matters is what you think.

— Alex Karev, Grey's Anatomy

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nag, v.: The thought won’t go away, so I pass it along to you, again and again.

— David Levithan, via Twitter

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That would be impressive, except if you had known what you were looking for you would have seen it on my dorm room window.

— Aaron Sorkin, The Social Experiment

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Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

— Paul Gaugin, Title of his large painting

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I don't like radical anything; left or right. I have a radical dislike of radicals.

— Temple Grandin, via en.wikiquote.org

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I was attending the American Society of Animal Science meetings when the flood occurred. I first learned about it when I read about it on the front page of USA Today, a national newspaper. I grieved for the "dead" books, the same way most people grieve for a dead relative. The destruction of books upset me because "thoughts died." Even though most of the books are still in other libraries, there are many people at the (Colorado State) university who will never read them. To me, Shakespeare lives if we keep performing his plays. He dies, when we stop performing them. I am my work. If the livestock industry continues to use equipment I have designed, then my "thoughts live" and my life has meaning. If my efforts to improve the treatment of cattle and pigs make real improvements in the world, then life is meaningful.

— Temple Grandin, via en.wikiquote.org

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If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.

— Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism

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The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

— Steve Biko, I Write What I Like: Selected Writings

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Me thinking of you
has nothing to do with you,
and everything to do with my inability to let the painful things go.

— Peyton Scott, Let It Go

Thoughts Letting Go Pain

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What I am after, above all, is expression. Sometimes it has been conceded that I have a certain technical ability but that, my ambition being limited, I am unable to proceed beyond a purely visual satisfaction such as can be procured from the mere sight of a picture. But the purpose of a painter must not be conceived as separate from his pictorial means, and these pictorial means must be the more complete (I do not mean complicated) the deeper is his thought. I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it

— Henri Matisse, Notes D'un Peintre

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We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

— Jacques Cousteau, via www.goodreads.com

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You are one of my nicest thoughts.

— Georgia O’Keeffe, via www.goodreads.com

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I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.

— Georgia O’Keeffe, via www.goodreads.com

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Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity; for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our departure from the world.

— John Calvin, More Biblical Evidence For Catholicism

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To fall in love with someone’s thoughts – the most intimate, splendid romance.

— Sanober Khan, A quote by Sanober Khan

Thoughts Mind Fall in love Attraction admiration

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History would be far different
if we did not tend to hear God
most clearly when we think
He is telling us
exactly what it is
we want to hear

— Madeleine Albright, The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs

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I sometimes wonder what you’re thinking of me, then I remember that you’re probably wondering what I think of you, which makes me wonder if any of us ever think of ourselves.

— Iain Thomas, The Protective Nature Of Glass

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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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I am a totally reasonable person. Except in my thoughts.

— Allison Raskin, via twitter.com

Thoughts What Goes On In My Brain crazy

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This love will set you free from thoughts of yesterday. Now, death has come to claim your beautiful remains.

— Andy Biersack, Beautiful Remains (We Stitch These Wounds)

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People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. Between Barbicane's proposition and its realization no true Yankee would have allowed even the semblance of a difficulty to be possible. A thing with them is no sooner said than done.

— Jules Verne, From The Earth To The Moon

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Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

— Jules Verne, From The Earth To The Moon

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Resist much, obey little

— Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892

Resistance obedience Life Living Thoughts Decisions

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I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.

— Virginia Woolf, Letter to Vita Sackville-West,’ November 22, 1933

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Being in love is a very strange thing. Your thoughts constantly drift towards this other person, no matter what you’re doing. You could be reaching for a glass in the cupboard or brushing your teeth or listening to someone tell a story, and your mind will just start drifting towards their face, their hair, the way they smell, wondering what they’ll wear, and what they’ll say the next time they see you. And on top of the constant dream state you’re in, your stomach feels like it’s connected to a bungee cord, and it bounces and bounces around for hours until it finally lodges itself next to your heart.

— Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six

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As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

— David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

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When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened.
Forever.

— Alan Moore, Batman: The Killing Joke

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If you really think about it, everything is wonderful in this world, everything except for our thoughts and deeds when we forget about the loftier goals of existence, about our human dignity.

— Anton Chekhov, Lady with Lapdog

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Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.

— Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: A True Story

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The mind is a funny place. I do not even trust my own.

— Roger Zelazny, The First Chronicles of Amber: Nine Princes in Amber, The Guns of Avalon, Sign of the Unicorn, The Hand of Oberon, The Courts of Chaos

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I just want to think deeply about things. Contemplate ideas in a pure, free sort of way. That’s all.

— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.

— Machado de Assis, The Devil's Church and Other Stories

Stars Sky Heavens Perspective Thoughts

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I find myself daydreaming about him when I wake up in the morning, in school when something reminds me of him, and when I fall asleep at night

— Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction

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In loving thou dost well, in passion not,
Wherein true love consists not: Love refines
The thoughts, and heart enlarges; hath his seat
In reason, and is judicious

— John Milton, Paradise Lost

Love Loving Passion True Love Thoughts heart

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I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I’ve ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

— Macaulay Culkin, Macaulay Culkin Quotes & Sayings

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Deep rivers run quiet.

— Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

— Gordon Allport, The Nature of Prejudice

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To hold a pen is to be at war.

— Voltaire, In Search Of The Lost Testament of Alexander the Great

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You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.

— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Being lonely is OK, and not everyone has to like you. You can’t always rely on people.

— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events

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Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it’s seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It’s taken me a long time to realize that.

— Alan Moore, Watchmen

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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

— Eugène Ionesco, Fragments of a Journal

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There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one’s idea for thirty-five years; there’s something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise

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People are screwed up in this world. I’d rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

— Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

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People have all sorts of pasts, sometimes dark or dreary, but perhaps the actions they choose in the present are the ones that carry the most weight.

— Erin Bowman, Taken

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My head and the universe ache me.

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.

— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

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Beware thoughts that come in the night.

— William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways: A Journey into America

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No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.

— Isaac Babel, The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

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I often think of the beautiful name you have.

— James Joyce, Ulysses (The Gabler Edition)

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts…

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions)

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Everyone has the right to believe in anything they want. And everyone else has the right to find it fucking ridiculous.

— Ricky Gervais, via Twitter

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I think lots of nice things about you during the day, but I’m too tired to tell you them.

— Simone de Beauvoir, Letters to Sartre

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It is a frightening thought, that in one fraction of a moment you can fall in the kind of love that takes a lifetime to get over.

— Beau Taplin, via www.goodreads.com

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It’s all in the mind.

— George Harrison, Yellow Submarine

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A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche: Quotes & Facts

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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul.

— Bram Stoker, Dracula

Thoughts Think Thinking Over Thinking Wondering

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Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

— Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.

— John Cage, Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein

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I know I’m still young and there’s a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that’s wrong, that I’m not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I’ll always just be alone.

— Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

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The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.

— William Lyon Phelps, William Lyon Phelps - Wikipedia

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I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.

— David Levithan, The Realm Of Possibility

Life Thoughts Suicidal

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Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

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This dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld, The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld

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I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

— Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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These thoughts, whether from inside me or from external things, soon become too intense.

— Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen (New Directions Paperbook)

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Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.

— Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson Quotes

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When new beautiful thoughts began to push out the old hideous ones, life began to come back to him, his blood ran healthily through his veins and strength poured into him like a flood.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden (HarperClassics)

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Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside you that you didn’t dare let them escape in case they blew you wide open?

— Ellen Hopkins, Crank

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