Thinking Quotes
I think that for me personally, a lot of my choices have been to do with my own issues of not feeling safe as a child and feeling a sense of stability.
People are constantly asking me if I'm pregnant, but I don't like to talk about it too much. I just think about it as the next phase. We'll see.
I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.
It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.
So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.
My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.
Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.
Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.
So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a big dog very uncomfortable.
I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.
For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.
I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I still am decadent. It's a state of mind, I think.
I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.
I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.
When you carry yesterday's thinking into today, you program tomorrow to be like yesterday.
If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.
The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.
Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love in service to mankind.
The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always NOW!
Often miracles are happening right in front of our eyes, but we think they should look different, so we miss them though they're right there.
I think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world.
I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.
I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.
We are here to repair the world. I grew up thinking that was what everybody was trying to do.
I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.
These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.
Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self.
Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.
Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)
I think the vast majority of Americans would have supported military action to stop the second plane from hitting the World Trade Center, if that had been possible. I would have been among them.
Sometimes we think, "We're the only people who see it this way," but that's really not the case.
I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.
I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.
When many people think of "new age" they think of crystals and purple decals and ceramic angels in people's windows and a kind of fuzzy thinking - which is abhorrent to a serious person.
I think it's unfortunate how many people today try to build up their own careers by denigrating the work of others.
The fact that the commercial success of my books has allowed me to buy a house for myself and my daughter I think is a lovely thing. I don't think there is anything wrong with that.
I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.
I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.
I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.
I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.
I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.
I don't like the tendency on the part of so many people today to think that those who don't agree with them are bad. In fact, I find that very dangerous.
Only God’s thoughts, or love, is actually real. So when we separate ourselves from that love, we’re actually not thinking at all: we’re hallucinating.
We think that because we dwell inside our bodies that we are separate from other people who dwell inside theirs.