Quotes of: Good-thoughts Keyword

... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey

The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.

Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

I never thought I would become amazing. I never thought I would be as great as my father. I would like to continue writing novels, and hopefully, at some point, I would like to make the switch from being 'Stephen Hawking's daughter' to 'novelist Lucy...

Lucy Hawking

Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.

Sophie Kinsella

You're either growing or dying. Stagnation does not exist in the universe.

177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class: The Thought Processes, Habits and Philosophies of the Great Ones

You can either feed negative thoughts or you can starve the suckers.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

A vast and abandoned world laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, a view that confirmed you were much more alone than you thought you were, a view that inspired the flickering thoughts of suicide.

Imperial Bedrooms

To know another person is to Know How to live and work with her. To know another person in a moral sense is to Know How to respect her... Respect must show in action.

Impure Thoughts: Essays on Philosophy, Feminism, and Ethics

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

If I'd thought she was uninterested, I never would have worried so much - the prospect of screwing something up is much more daunting than that of screwing nothing up. I definitely thought there was something there, and so there was something to lose...

The Instructions

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

For a moment I think we were turned into information, and that in that instant we were linked to every other piece of information ever known; every thought ever thought, or at least ever captured by the light.

Revelation Space

Wagner thought Rossini unserious; Rossini thought Wagner 'lacked sun'. Wagner also became the butt of a phrase Rossini had used down the years to describe musicians about whom he had certain reservations - "He has some beautiful moments but some bad ...

Rossini

While the powers of the Primal Cause lie in causation, it shows itself in process through thoughts, perception and conception. It is the power of the Primal Cause to decipher what is perceived from the ordered plane and conceive judgments through tho...

The Rudeness of Soul

Thoughts appear and disappear, just like waves on the ocean. Be like the ocean of love, releasing every thought to the shore as soon as they appear.

Return to Love: A Guide to Inner Peace, Emotional Healing and Spiritual Transformation

Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learnt to cling more abjectly to life.

Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

I know what it's like to sleep in fear, to starve myself to be worthy, to be ashamed of my voice, to want to sleep forever. To question why I deserve to live.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

I've had a lot of therapists, so I've had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I've faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith