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Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserve to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? I what I did really so much worse than waht anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? Think about it.

I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.

It faintly irritated him that Zaphod had to impose some ludicrous fantasy on to the scene to make it work for him. All this Margrathea nonsense seemed juvenile. Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I think about this, not like someone thinking, but like someone breathing, And I look at flowers and I smile... I don’t know if they understand me Or if I understand them, But I know the truth is in them and in me And in our common divinity Of letting ourselves go and live on the Earth And carrying us in our arms through the contented Seasons And letting the wind sing us to sleep And not have dreams in our sleep.

I think most of what the majority of people say is said without thinking.

I think my thinking with my heart I act with my thinking from my heart but I'm just a human being with a heart and not a rational thinker

I think nothing is good, I really think it is.

I think she's too single for me, and she thinks I'm with two other people. She also thinks she thinks, I think.

I think therefore I am not sure.

I think we may have reached the point where guns need to be confiscated from police officers.

I think we spend more time thinking of things to deal with than just letting them go. When we quiet our minds, that’s true freedom.

I think we're closest to our deepest nature, our true being, when we're not thinking but just doing things.

I think we're happiest when we're not thinking and just doing things.

I thought I would stand myself a little dinner. I hadn't quite enough sense to know that what I really wanted was human companions. There aren't such things. Every man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking.

It is absolutely possible that the impossible is possible.

It is curious why anybody should pooh-pooh a study of fossils or various forms of rocks or lava. Such things grant us our only vision into Natural History’s big book; and it isn't a book in first-class condition. Far from it! Just a tiny scrap; a slip; or, possibly a big chunk is found, with nothing notifying us as to how it got to that particular point, nor how long ago. Man can only look at it, lift it, rap it, cut into it, and squint at it through a magnifying glass. And,— think about it. That’s all; until a formal study brings accompanying thoughts from many minds; and, by such tactics, judging that in all probability such and such a rock or fossil footprint is about so old. Natural History holds you in its grasp through just this impossibility of finding actual facts; for it is thus causing you to think. Now, thinking is not only a voluntary function; it is an acquisition; an art. Plants do not think. Animals probably do, but in a primary way, such as an aid in knowing poisonous foods, and how to bring up an offspring with similar ability. But Man can, and should think, and think hard and constantly. It is ridiculous to rush blindly into an action without looking forward to lay out a plan. Such an unthinking custom is almost a panic, and panic is but a mild form of insanity

It is difficult to stop people from thinking on their own and exceedingly so, to get them to think on their own.

It is extremely difficult for believers, if not impossible, to draw a clear line between the facts and fantasies of their beliefs. Most often they are raised as children in the cradle of faith and, before they ever become capable of judging the truth or falsehood of their beliefs, they already become an integral part of their system. The few who awaken from their mental state of lethargy and oblivion do so at the cost of their religion but seldom admit this fact publicly. They keep wearing the same garb under the same title so that despite the loss of faith their religion continues to survive merely as a symbol of identity. This, unfortunately, is the fate of all religions which deny rationality any instrumental role in judging the validity of their beliefs.

It is ironic that constructive thinkers are often misunderstood as negative, as they differ from those longing for positivity: constructive thinkers have been conditioned to find positive in negative rather than suffering from the negative in negative. Or as Paul the Apostle wrote, 'I have learned the secret to contentment in any and every circumstance.' He was right. Indeed the Lord is our strength, especially under the commandment to love one another. Otherwise we are nothing and easily thrown about by both our own and other people's mind control in a painful, mental, physical desperation to run from every thought, every thing, and every one not seeming so positive or immediately beneficial to us.

It is not good to make everyday decision based upon what we see and what other people are saying or thinking

It is not what you know that determines the quality of your life; it is what you do that decides your experiences.

It might seem a contradiction but... the ability to improvise requires lots of practice. Ask any jazz musician.

It isn’t what you don’t know that’s the problem. It is what you’re unwilling to ask.

It is what it is because you let it be so.

It might feel, at least to some of us, that our opinions about issues such as abortion and the death penalty are the products of careful deliberation and that our specific moral acts, such as deciding to give to charity or visit a friend in the hospital—or for that matter, deciding to shoplift or shout a racist insult out of a car window—are grounded in conscious decision-making. But this is said to be mistaken. As Jonathan Haidt argues, we are not judges; we are lawyers, making up explanations after the deeds have been done. Reason is impotent. "We celebrate rationality," agrees de Waal, "but when push comes to shove we assign it little weight.

I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.

[...] I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgement until the evidence is in.

Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation whatever is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts which we have omitted to experience while looking at our screens are left to find their revenge in involuntary twitches and our ever-decreasing ability to fall asleep when we should.

It is your job to get the hard facts right to grasp the truth totally. It is better to build inner strength and try inside-out approach rather than using quick fixes suggested by experts in the business of selling fallacy in the guise of truth, hope and positive thinking.

It's a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret. And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones who often don't know it or don't want to admit it. Here is a quick test: If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant. Before it is too late, go out there and find someone who, in your opinion, believes, assumes, or considers certain things very strongly and very differently from you, and just have a basic honest conversation. It will do both of you good.

It's a strange idea people have that thinking makes one intelligent.

It’s easy to play the victim card (all of us have done this), but this mindset is one of the greatest obstacles to progress and growth.

It’s difficult to accept full responsibility and apportion blame at the same time – you have to choose one.

It's easy not to find out things, if you try hard enough.

It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.

It's matter of choice and matter of thinking.

It's not entirely absurd to think that somewhere in the past of mankind someone, for the first time, did in his mind the equivalent of putting an adjective to a noun, and saw, not only a relationship, but this special relationship between two things of different kinds....In sum, all the seemingly complicated kinds of modification in English are just ways of thinking and seeing how things go with each other or reflect each other. Modifiers in our language are not aids to understanding relationships; they are the ways to understand relationships. A mistake in this matter either comes from or causes a clouded mind. Usually it's both.

It’s not how long you live that matters, it’s how well you live.

It’s not what happens, it’s what you do that makes the difference to how things turn out. Change your perspective in the way that serves you best.

It’s no mystery, it isn’t luck. Success is a result of your obedience to specific principles, rules and laws

It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily transmitte to itself, or rather, to the very person who is thinking it; and that is why - because it has a form - it has a limited reach. Whereas the thought called "freedom" is free as an act of thought. It's so free that even to its thinker it seems to have no author.

It sometimes happens that a thought, either formulated to oneself or not formulated at all, works secretly on the mind and yet has but little direct influence over it.

It’s our decisions, not our conditions, that ultimately shape the quality of our lives.

It's you I've been thinking, awake or sleeping, I'm always dreaming Me and you sweetly embracing :)

It’s what you’re reading that matters, and how you’re reading it, not the speed with which you’re getting through it. Reading is supposed to be about the encounter with other minds, not an opportunity to return to the endlessly appealing subject of Me.

It’s your responsibility and no one else’s to keep yourself inspired.

It takes time for the things to manifest. Everything needs necessary energy for its manifestation.

It was absolutely not a dream, it could be a glimpse of near future or an insight into the parallel universe we will in or it could simply be a world created by my unconscious brain where I actually fit in. But no matter what, we were together and that's enough.