Quotes about thinking
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“We lose a great deal, I think, when we lose this sense and feeling for the sun. When all has been said, the adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on natures's sustaining and poetic spirit.”

Henry Beston (1888–1968) American writer

Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

Feeling, Nature, Sense, Sun

“As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.”

Viktor E. Frankl book Man's Search for Meaning

Source: Man's Search for Meaning

Behavior, Personality

“I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

People, Shoe, Christ

“Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.”

George Burns (1896–1996) American comedian, actor, and writer

“When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

Quotes

“Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown — even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Life

“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

For women

“What a terrible mistake, thought Drogo, perhaps everything is like that — we think there are beings like ourselves around us and instead there is nothing but ice and stones speaking a strange language; we are on the point of greeting a friend but our arm falls inert, the smile dies away because we are completely alone.”

Dino Buzzati book The Tartar Steppe

Source: The Tartar Steppe

Smile

“I think real forgiveness is a gift someone has to earn, and I don’t even have to worry about Kalona asking for my forgiveness unless he’s worthy of even considering it, and I just don’t see that happening.”

P. C. Cast book Awakened

Source: Awakened

Forgiveness

“without you, dearest dearest I couldn't see or hear or feel or think - or live - I love you so and I'm never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.”

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Love, Feeling, Night

“It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

God, Disease, Feeling

“Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.”

Carrie Fisher book Postcards from the Edge

Source: Postcards from the Edge

Box

“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”

Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

Children

“It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”

Hugh Laurie (1959) British actor, comedian, writer, musician and director

Context: (Answering "What made you step up to making your own record?") I felt like I may not get opportunities to do this ever again, so it’s about time—it’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There’s almost no such thing as ready. There’s only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that confidently as if I’m about to go bungee jumping or something—I’m not. I’m not a crazed risk taker. But I do think that, generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

Life, Feeling, Time, Waiting

“There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?”

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer

Feeling

“But, here was a curious thing. The more I tried to give up thinking of her, the more I said to myself, 'She's nothing to you', the harder I tried to pluck the idea of her out of my heart, the more she stayed there.”

Sarah Waters book Fingersmith

Source: Fingersmith

Idea, Heart

“When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet… When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world…”

Kóbó Abe book The Box Man

Source: The Box Man

World

“Oh the thinks you can think up if only you try!”

Dr. Seuss book Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!

Variant: Oh, the thinks you can think!
Source: Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!

Hope

“Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.”

Terry Pratchett book Dodger

Source: Dodger

Money, People

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

Pain, World, History, Reading

“We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the statesman with pen, the most of us with machines, votes, and dollars, but it all comes to the same thing: peace in our time. A measure of success in this is all well enough, and perhaps is a requisite to objective thinking, but too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run. Perhaps this is behind Thoreau’s dictum: In wildness is the salvation of the world. Perhaps this is the hidden meaning in the howl of the wolf, long known among mountains, but seldom perceived among men.”

Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac

“Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain”, p. 133. <br class="br">This is a paraphrase of Thoreau: see explanation by the Walden Woods project http://www.walden.org/Library/Quotations/The_Henry_D._Thoreau_Mis-Quotation_Page). <br class="br">Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Arizona and New Mexico: On Top," & "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain"

Life, Men, World, Peace

“you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Pain, Peace, Silence

“I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do.”

Erich Maria Remarque book The Black Obelisk

Source: The Black Obelisk

World, Time

“It is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;
Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company,
For you in my respect are all the world:
Then how can it be said I am alone,
When all the world is here to look on me?”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

World, Night

“[I]t is something that comes up as a struggle in me. It especially came up when I was about 16 or 17. In high school people think you have to be so macho. People get attacked just because someone insinuates something about their sexuality. I think that’s gruesome.”

Green Day

People, School

“In the end, I've found that it doesn't really matter who you marry. If you like them at the beginning, you probably won't like them at the end. And if you start off hating them, there's always the chance you'll end up thinking they're all right.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: Essays in Love

Hate, Chance

“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Death

“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.”

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer

Source: Selected Diaries

Forgetting

“I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.”

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist

Life, Happiness, People

“It is a natural illness of man to think that he possesses the truth directly…”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

C'est une maladie naturelle à l'homme de croire qu'il possède la vérité directement…
Section I
Variant translation: It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
On the Spirit of Geometry

Truth, Nature

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Variant: When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive-to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Source: Meditations

Love, Motivational, Success, Life

“It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.”

Terry Pratchett book A Hat Full of Sky

Source: A Hat Full of Sky

People

“Don't think, feel…. it is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973); In a training session with one of the temple students.
Variant: Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.
Source: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Way, Feeling

“First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these… sometimes led her to walk into doors.”

Terry Pratchett book I Shall Wear Midnight

Source: I Shall Wear Midnight

“Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds.
Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.”

Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941) British saint, poet, novelist

Evil

“I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

Variant: I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Change, Time

“I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

World, Country

“I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Box

“Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Books, Way, Feeling, Understanding

“When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Despair

“Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.”

James Allen (1864–1912) British philosophical writer

Source: Byways of Blessedness

“Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later--no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover or how much we learn or forget--we will return.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)

Books, World, Way, Learning

“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”

Isaac Newton (1643–1727) British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics

God

“When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist

Children, Teachers' Day

“In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Joy, Forgetting

“Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.”

Homér Iliad

IX. 312–313 (tr. Alexander Pope).
A. H. Chase and W. G. Perry, Jr.'s translation:
: Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is the man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Source: The Iliad

Hell, Heart

“All thinking men are atheists.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 2

Men

“Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.”

Orhan Pamuk book Istanbul: Memories and the City

Source: Istanbul: Memories and the City

Life, Time

“You're all geniuses and you're all beautiful. You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace. Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Statement to the press in July 1969 after the release of the Plastic Ono Band's single "Give Peace a Chance", as quoted in The Beatles: An Oral History by David Pritchard and Alan Lysaght (1998) New York: Hyperion. ISBN: 0786864362. OCLC: 39093547. p. 285.
Context: It was just a gradual development over the years. Last year was "All You Need Is Love." This year it's "Give Peace a Chance." Remember love. The only hope for any of us is peace. Violence begets violence. If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. You're all geniuses and you're all beautiful. You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace. Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like. Okay?

Peace, Beauty

“Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.”

James Frey My Friend Leonard

Source: My Friend Leonard

Life

“What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Love, Tree

“Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Women, Men

“I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.”

Andy Rooney (1919–2011) writer, humorist, television personality

Source: Sincerely, Andy Rooney

People, Religion

“You would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. It's far more common than you might think.
-Angela the Herbalist”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

Madness

“I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.”

Leonard Nimoy (1931–2015) American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer

Attitude

“You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.”

Terry Pratchett book Wintersmith

Source: Wintersmith

People, World

“People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”

Stephen King book Carrie

Source: Carrie

People

“Not being tense but ready.
Not thinking but not dreaming.
Not being set but flexible.
Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.
It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”

Bruce Lee book Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Dreams, Sense

“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”

Toni Morrison book Jazz

Source: Jazz

Love, Relationship, Romantic

“What do you think dignity's all about?'

The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.”

Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day

Source: The Remains of the Day

Clothes

“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

Faith

“All the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you that. It's not on the curriculum.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book Marina

Source: Marina

World, School, Learning

“I think I need to avoid the world today. There’s no way I
can adult.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Firstlife

World, Way

“It’s tough to get out of bed; I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won’t be able to deal with it.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Lie

“The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”

W.E.B. Du Bois book The Souls of Black Folk

Source: The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. V: Of the Wings of Atalanta

Truth

“I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Shoe, Guy

“And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.'
Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?'
Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies… it’s just a word.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Life

“When you love someone as much as that, you don't believe they can die. You think your love protects them.”

Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942) French novelist who died at the age of 39 in Auschwitz

Source: The Wine of Solitude

Love

“But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.”

George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States

Washington's formal acceptance of command of the Army (16 June 1775), quoted in The Writings of George Washington : Life of Washington (1837) edited by Jared Sparks, p. 141
1770s

Sincerity

“They always gives me bath salts," complained Nobby. "And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath stuff and I can't think why, 'cos it's not as if I hardly ever has a bath. You'd think they'd take the hint, wouldn't you?”

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

“If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

People, Way

“It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Men

“If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

People

“As you think, so shall you become.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

“If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

“Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a
sacrament that should be taken kneeling.”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

Love

“Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

Variant: Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Source: Fire from Within

Men, Feeling

“Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.”

Atul Gawande (1965) American surgeon

Change

“Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.”

Tamora Pierce The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

Source: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

Women, Men

“Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

God, Faith, Religion

“The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.”

Bertrand Russell book The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

Time, Night

“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Love, Drawing

“Please be thinking about me. I'm quite lonely and I want to be thought about”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“I laugh at myself.
I don't take myself completely seriously.
I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to… you have to laugh, especially at yourself.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

People

“Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.”

Terry Pratchett book Sourcery

Source: Sourcery

People

“I don't think any of us are normal people.”

Wes Anderson (1969) American filmmaker

People

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time. It's just a natural feeling. You're not the person who discovered that feeling, so don't go trying to patent it, okay?”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore (2002)

Love, Sadness, Feeling, Search

“I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

People

“Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Love, Guy, Evil

“Do you think it's dirty money?
-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

Money

“They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.”

Michael Crichton book Jurassic Park

Source: Jurassic Park

Intelligence

“You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

“Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”

Terry Pratchett book Monstrous Regiment

Source: Monstrous Regiment

“It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.”

Terry Pratchett book Monstrous Regiment

Source: Monstrous Regiment

People

“I am so often accused of gloominess and melancholy. And I think I'm probably the most cheerful man around. I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

As quoted in "The Joking Troubadour of Gloom" in The Daily Telegraph (26 April 1993) http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/feb93.htm <br class="br">Context: I am so often accused of gloominess and melancholy. And I think I'm probably the most cheerful man around. I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin. … I think those descriptions of me are quite inappropriate to the gravity of the predicament that faces us all. I've always been free from hope. It's never been one of my great solaces. I feel that more and more we're invited to make ourselves strong and cheerful..... I think that it was Ben Jonson who said, I have studied all the theologies and all the philosophies, but cheerfulness keeps breaking through.

Feeling, Waiting

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Variant: Yes. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
Source: Uglies

Beauty, Way, Beauty

“Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.”

Christopher Pike book The Last Vampire

Source: The Last Vampire

Love, Passion, Evil

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