“When we stop caring about what people think, we lose our capacity for connection. When we become defined by what people think, we lose our willingness to be vulnerable.”

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US writer and professor 1965

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 97

“I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.”

John Danforth (1936) American politician

Page 74
Faith and Politics (2006)

“It is impossible to care for each other more or differently than we care for the earth.
This last statement becomes obvious enough when it is considered that the earth is what we all have in common, that it is what we are made of and what we live from, and that we therefore cannot damage it without damaging those with whom we share it. But I believe it goes farther and deeper than that. There is an uncanny resemblance between our behavior toward each other and our behavior toward the earth. Between our relation to our own sexuality and our relation to the reproductivity of the earth, for instance, the resemblance is plain and strong. By some connection we do not recognize, the willingness to exploit one becomes the willingness to exploit the other.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

The Unsettling of America (1977), Chapter Seven : The Body and the Earth

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

Remarks During Signing of Defense Bill http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/aug/06/uselections2004.usa2 (5 August 2004). <br class="br">2000s, 2004

“Look at what goes on in our heads when we think about our family or we think about sex. There are things in there that you'd never really say to anybody. You're even ashamed to think it yourself.”

John Banville (1945) Irish writer

John Banville: Who cares whodunnit? (2013)

“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

“Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.”

Doris Lessing book The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“If the choice was made for us, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or to remain with our sovereignty and lose membership of the Commonwealth, then I would say, then let the Commonwealth go. What is it to us? Our people are overjoyed, the land is ours. We are now the rulers and owners of Zimbabwe.”

Robert Mugabe (1924–2019) former President of Zimbabwe

ibid.
2000s, 2000-2004

“When we stop caring about what people think, we lose our capacity for connection. When we become defined by what people think, we lose our willingness to be vulnerable.”

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