Quotes by category:Thinking

I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.

book way thinking

Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.

kids school thinking

I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school until junior high. I don't believe in transmigration or anything like that. I have resentment for being forced to believe in something. I will always think of the church as an institution and not a comfort.

believe school thinking

I'm feminine: I'm wearing a skirt, I own a bra. I think that whole big blonde look has been taken over by transsexuals now. I'm a natural blonde, but that blonde hair, big tits idea of what men want, it's now really unfeminine.

taken men thinking

Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect vision of the Divine, and show it to others when we are disturbed with human thoughts and personal problems. It is only when we are quite still and receptive that God can think His thoughts into us and use us for His purposes.

Alice Hegan Rice

god peace thinking

The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.

Alice Hegan Rice

spiritual discovery thinking

In any case, life is beautiful, extremely beautiful. And when you are old you appreciate it more. When you are older you think, you remember, you care and you appreciate. You are thankful for everything. For everything.

Alice Herz-Sommer

remember-you beautiful thinking

I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward. by Alice Herz-Sommer

I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.

Alice Herz-Sommer

thank-you beautiful thinking

My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.

grandmother sky thinking

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

like-love chance thinking

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," wh... by Alice Hoffman

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.

railroads genius thinking

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

magic-realism dark thinking

How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it was the pain of nothingness. My fear was of the weather, the atmosphere, the very air. What good did safety tips do me now? 'Avoid water, metal objects, rooftops; stay off the telephone in a storm, don't think glass can protect you; even if a storm was 8 miles away, you're still not safe from a strike. Avoid life perhaps that was the answer. The number one safety tip, stay away from it all.

pain fear thinking

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life

real love-is thinking

Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the next place and the place after that? You run once, what makes you think you won't have to run all the rest of your life?... We love moment to moment... Everything changes. One minute we are part of the river, and the next we are joined with the sea.

should-have running thinking

But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.

important believe thinking

Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part... by Alice Hoffman

Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.

wish remember thinking

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

wife people thinking

Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a po... by Alice Hoffman

Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.

possibility reality thinking

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

believe looks thinking