Quotes about thing

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“Whatever you focus upon, increases…… When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing…… A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.”

“And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.”

“Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.”

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In the end, we both want the right thing to happen, the right person to win, the right idea to prevail. We have no faith that it will, but still we want it. Neither of us has given up on anything.”

“When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle,
you can do incredible things.”

“Of three things be wary-
of a feather on a cat,
The shepherd eating mutton,
And a guardsman that is fat.”

“Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.”

“Some things simply were too true to stay. Some merely came to visit for a while.”

“True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.”

“Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.”

“You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet..”

“I had no choice. Love does funny things to people.”

“Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.”

“The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.”

“Sometimes you’re just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one.”

“Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.”

“For fear you will be alone
you do so many things
that aren’t you at all.”

“I've been going a long time now
along the way I've learned some things.

You have to make the good times yourself
take the little times and make them into big times
and save the times that are all right
for the ones that aren't so good.”

“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”

“She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had no say in the matter. Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else.”

“It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.”

“When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.”

“You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.”

“It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.”

“I was wrong. I admit it. I believed that there were things which still mattered just because they had mattered once. But I was wrong. Nothing matters but breath, breathing, to know and to be alive.”

“A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and
let go?”

“I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.”

“It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.”

“It's a road!"
I patted his back." It's a lovely road. Now which way do we go?"
Corey looked one way, the brown ribbon extending into emptiness. He looked the other way, saw the same thing and his shoulders slumped.
"Damn.”

“And how did your day go?" I asked Ascanio.
He turned to me, a dreamy look on his pretty face. "We killed things. There was blood. Fountains of blood. And then we had barbecue.”

“You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.”

“There is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.”

“Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.”

“She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.”

“One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.”

“Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.”

“There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.”

“A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.”

“Thoughts Become Things… Choose The Good Ones!”

“There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.”

“Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.”

“Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.”

“Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.”

“You know, I've walked this earth for over eleven thousand years, my lady. I have seen things in my life that are unimaginable to you, and you ask me if I doubt you? Lady, I doubt the very air you breathe. (Acheron)”

“Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.”

“It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way”

“It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty…”

“Funny how you notice how beautiful things are just when you're about to leave them.”

“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.”

“Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.”

“He almosted smiled. "There you go again. Why? Why do yo keep helping me?"
There were a million answers on my lips, everything from It's the right thing to do to I don't know. Instead, I said, "Because I want to.”

“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?”

“Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.”

“Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.”

“You have food?" Winter scolded. "I thought you said you were hungry."
I'm hungry for other things besides what I have," [Clover] argued.”

“I know that the thing under my bed doesn't exist. But I also know that if I keep my feet under the blanket, it won't grab my ankle”

“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”

“One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.”

“The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seemed filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster”

“And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.'… Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.”

“The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold.

Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.”

“After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds.”

“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.”

“Things won't change unless you change you.”

“that's the funny thing about mazes: what's baffling on the ground begins to makes sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself". (p. 717)”

“Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.”

“Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.”

“What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.”

“There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.”

“Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.”

“The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.”

“The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters”

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

“My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, “Things that are covered don’t heal well.” Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.”

“The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!”

“Sometimes people can be too intellegent for their own good. Too much thinking could confuse things.”

“We get used to living one way, even if it's a bad way or a hard one. When that's gone, there's a hole to fill. It's in our nature to try to fill it with anxieties and fears. It can take time to fill it with good things instead.”

“… hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.”

“Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?”

“I'm not going to do that."
"of course you're not." Jace said. "because you live to torture me, don't you?"
"Not everything, Jace, is about you." Clary said furiously.
"Possibly," Jace said "But you have to admit that the majority of the things are.”

“Leo grabbed the neasrest thing he could find- a Porta-Potty seat- and threw it at the face. Leve me alone!”

“For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.”

“Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?”

“In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.”

“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.”

“He stopped what he was doing and pulled out his magic phone.

Okay, the phone wasn't magic, but it does things my computer struggles with.”

“Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people.”

“But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”

“Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough.”

“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”

“The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.”

“Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken… a useless thing. Then make an offer.”

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”

“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”

“I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.”

“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”

“Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”

“In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.”

“Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil.”