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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train.
- Alain de Botton
We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.
- James Allen
George MacDonald: "I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of. For to have been thought about—born in God's thoughts—and then made by God is the dearest, grandest, most precious thing in all thinking.
- Jerry Bridges
Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.
- Ernest Hemingway
I was pretty well through with the subject. At one time or another I had probably considered it from most of its various angles, including the one that certain injuries or imperfections are a subject of merriment while remaining quite serious for the person possessing them.
- Ernest Hemingway
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
- Ernest Hemingway
I'm glad I remembered to make it an order, he thought. That helps him out. That takes some of the curse off. I hope it does, anyway.
- Ernest Hemingway
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.
- Charles Spurgeon