Yogi Berra
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
Swami Vivekananda
Category Archives: THINK THINK THINK
There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
Sinclair Lewis
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
Arthur Schopenhauer
How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.
http://home.btconnect.com/tipiglen/abbeyqu.html
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Vol 1
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Allen
Some days will drip in slow descent
along the creases of our skin;
they leave our inspiration clogged,
the texture of our labors thin.
Some days will coil with cobra-stealth,
attack when we are least prepared;
we cannot walk unscathed and yet
survival’s sweet – for we have dared!
Some days erect their wired barbs;
we struggle, bleed, admit we failed.
(And foolishly withdraw in shame –
as though our virtue was impaled.)
But ah, the days that string their pearls
across our shoulders, warmly rest
their sundrop auras…these we clasp
in awe, aware that we are blest.
© Laryalee Fraser
Any good thing you say to me shall not be forgotten. I shall carry it as near to my heart as my children, and it shall be as often on my tongue as the name of the Great Spirit.
Chief Ten Bears
http://www.experiencefestival.com/native_american_indian_quotes
There is a road in the hearts of all of us, hidden and seldom travelled,
which leads to an unknown, secret place.
The old people came literally to love the soil,
and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of
being close to a mothering power.
Their teepees were built upon the earth
and their altars were made of earth.
The soul was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.
That is why the old Indian still sits upon the earth instead of
propping himself up and away from its life giving forces.
For him, to sit or lie upon the ground is to be able to think more deeply
and to feel more keenly. He can see more clearly into the mysteries of
life and come closer in kinship to other lives about him.
Chief Luther Standing Bear
http://www.sapphyr.net/natam/quotes-nativeamerican.htm
A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.
(Italian
Be like the old lady who fell out of the wagon.
(you aren’t involved, so stay out of it)
The elders of the village are the boundaries.
Ghanaian
Ituura rir kanono ritituhagia kahiu
The village, which has got a whetstone, does not blunt the knife
The sense of the proverb is that if in a village there is a good whetstone it does not mean that the villagers should purposely blunt their tools in order to whet them. The time will come when the shetstone will have to be used.
Every thing is good in its season.
Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.
GERMAN
When God cooks, you don’t see smoke.
African Proverb
(“Kuteka Lesa ke kumweka bwishi ne.” from Kaonde, Zambia)
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.
( Maddy and Jim heading to the Illawarra to buy a new car. )
Susan Jeffers
http://www.help-for.com/quotes.htm
Corrie Ten Boom
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a centre of fear.
Lil boy nah climb ladder to turn big man.
Only time can make you what you will be.
http://www.guyana.org/proverbs.html
Don’t wait to make your son a great man – make him a great boy.
When in charge, ponder.
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
Edith Wharton
Does a man not know when he has pepper in his eyes? If we forget yesterday, how shall we remember tomorrow.
most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.”
Alexander McCall Smith, The Miracle at Speedy Motors
The best thing about tea, above everything else, is that it lubricates the grey matter.
What a man thinks, that he is; this is the old secret.
Upanishads
“I would enter the desert alone, to leave in the sand endless footprints only to be obliterated by the wind, to walk the same path each day expecting the same path tomorrow, and perhaps to cease wondering at the bloom and wither of lilies only to linger for death. But no, even in the desert, I would seek a new sanctuary, to contemplate a grain of sand in a sea of dryness…”
― Leonard Seet, Meditation on Space-Time
Thoughts and dreams are the foundation of our being.
http://www.motherlandnigeria.com/proverbs.html
“As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favour”
― Lois McMaster Bujold
Wise? No, I simply learned to think.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest
I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are secure in our own soul.
– Margaret Chase Smith
I look up to the sky and see the big bright moon; I gaze down and think about my far way homeland.
http://www.transname.com/sayings.html
“A Drunkard accuses a Drunkard…
A sot became extremely drunk – his legs
And head sank listless, weighed by wine’s thick dregs.
A sober neighbour put him in a sack
And took him homewards hoisted on his back.
Another drunk went stumbling by the first,
Who woke and stuck his head outside and cursed.
“Hey, you, you lousy dipsomaniac,”
He yelled as he was borne off in the sack,
“If you’d had fewer drinks, just two or three,
You would be walking now as well as me.”
―
They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst.
~Scottish Proverb
“That’s what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.”
― Richard Matheson, I am Legend and Other Stories
Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.”
― Nick Drake
”We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.”
Bertolt Brecht
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?” –
Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
“He hesitated, but then stepped beneath the tree and knelt, depositing me gently on the ground between two giant roots. And he stayed there, kneeling beside me, holding my hand in his. Something splashed the back of my hand, cold as spring water, crystalling to my skin. A faery’s tears.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron Queen
To begin with,’ he said heavily,’you’ve got to understand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull, and your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself.’
– Richard Bach Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
“Somebody has to go polish the stars,
They’re looking a little bit dull.
Somebody has to go polish the stars,
For the eagles and starlings and gulls
Have all been complaining they’re tarnished and worn,
They say they want new ones we cannot afford.
So please get your rags
And your polishing jars,
Somebody has to go polish the stars.”
― Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic
If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Inside Out
Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 – 1939), Saturday 5 May 1923
The dissenter is every human being at those moments in his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
– Archibald MacLeish
‘In Praise of Dissent’, in the NewYork Times,16 Dec.
Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”
― Becca Chopra, The Chakra Diaries
Taking the first step with the good thought, the second with the good word, and the third with the good deed, I enter paradise.
You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.”
― Ralph Nader
Falling down is how we grow. Staying down is how we die.
Brian Vaszily
THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 