Best 533 quotes in «thought provoking quotes» category

Oh no. I'm not gonna let you leave yet. I'm gonna show you the value of takin' your time to get to work. I probably should have done this a long time ago.

Old robots are becoming more human and young humans are becoming more like robots.

Once they had been equal in their separate freedoms. They had set out to have children as lightly as if they were playing house, and now her necessarily domestic life bored him, and she was bound to it in her body and imagination. This imbalance was fated, built into their biology.

Once you are a butterfly, you can really love – the kind of love that makes a new life. It’s better than all the hugging caterpillars can do.

One ‘Magic Formula’ is for you to become your own best friend and your own biggest critic SIMULTANEOUSLY.

One of the first lessons a warrior is taught is that denial of one's circumstances only results in failure to recognize real danger.

One of the favors life can do on you is to keep you busy.

... one would like to be both [loved and feared], but as it is difficult to combine both love and fear, if one has to choose between them it is far safer to be feared than loved

Only the artistic will to transform the future into a space of unlimited art-elevating chances enables us to understand the core of the procreation rule: 'a creator shall you create [...] a self-propelling wheel, a first movement'. This rule contains no less than Nietzsche's theology after the death of God: there will continue to be a God and gods, but only humanity-immanent ones, and only to the extent that there are creators who follow on from what has been achieved in order to go higher, faster and further.

Only with calmness can you control your emotions.

On whose authority, who gives the right to religion, the law, medicine, the others, to choose on my behalf but without consulting me, the way, the place and the time I am allowed to die?

Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly.

Our minds are meant to soar into the marvels of the spiritual realm. But as long as they are full of temporal perspectives and pursuits, darkness is inevitable.

Over the course of your life you are actually hundreds of different people. You are a different person at the coffee shop than you are at the bar, and a different person for the dry cleaner than you are for your boyfriend, and a different person at work than you are on vacation. You are nobody in particular. But once somebody finds you and loves you, you have to keep being the person that they love. You want thier love. You need to keep getting it even if it means pretending...but no one loved her and so she could keep changing.

Our Universe is a multidimensional one; every individual life unit consciously functions in a particular vibratory level (dimension or density) but unconsciously/ subconsciously functions in and through all the other levels, and as the awareness increases it moves to the conscious existence of the next immediate level.

Parenting has no guide book; we come to it with what came at us. It's only the conscious mind that can shift the paradigm.

People sometimes forget how to be happy due to a "failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal footing. That was the only moral a story must have.

People were funny about things they couldn't see. If they couldn't see it, it wasn't there. Or at the least, it didn't affect them. But the world didn't work that way, did it? There were things all around that you couldn't see, and these things had power.

Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.

Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is.

Positive actions create a chain reaction reaching far across the Universe. One Life touches another Life, who touches another Life. Be the Good, leave a Legacy.

Prayer also forms a type of nutrition for self confidence and keeps you free from worry. It connects you with the main Source of positive energy (Almighty) and recharges you throughout the day. It elevates your plain of thoughts and indirectly guides you to think fruitful and useful thoughts.

Reading the cards (tarot) was revealing, and not only for the client.

Relationships are messy and painful, and hard to maintain. It takes time build, but only seconds to destroy.

Relationships matter. The roles people play in your life will influence you so get serious about who you allow to affect you. Nurture those relationships in your circle that foster success and happiness, and continuously position yourself among change agents and thought leaders.

Religion would have us believe that immortality is reserved for the gods. We remain skeptical.

Religious faith as a whole induces various health benefits in the general population through complex biological processes.

Organised religion generally gets in the way of spiritual experience.

People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny.

Perfectionism is a delusion that can rob one of a very successful, enriching life if not careful.

Perhaps we all said the right things at the wrong time; perhaps we couldn't help it. Perhaps words became too heavy to haul, and the moment we let them loose was always the wrong one, but they needed to be free.

Random thoughts have the potential to create a chaotic reality.

Reality is such an elusive concept.

Renewed mind, revived spirit and restored strength.

River says we all drink from the same stream, you know? There is not one drop of water on our planet that is new.

Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling.

She'll let you put her in her place, But she won't stand for anything worse than first.

She played hard to get, because she was. And it wasn't a game to her to play. She was hard to get, and hard to get. Don't you understand? She was the one that got away. Either way, if she stayed or strayed, you were better for loving her. And if she loved you back, you learned to breathe easy. Like the air in your world was lighter with her in it. We all know that one we will always look back on and wonder "What if?"....She's hard to get, harder to keep, and hardest to forget.

She persisted when I resisted. And thank God for that. Because the number of storms I needed to go through before appreciating the way the wind whipped through her hair was one to many. Now, I'd move mountains to make her mine. Rain or shine.

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.

Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.

Simply by living in this particular time and space, you're doing something nearly 100% of all other humans ever never could. Don't waste it.

So, is it harder to dream about what you don´t have than to live in fear of losing what you do?

Some champions are born; others are forged!

Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit.

Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.

Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.

Some pasts exist as a fog that rolls in and out of the present, formed not by air that condenses into mist but memories that condense into tiny doors that open to forgotten moments. Maybe you glance at a stranger on a crowded street who reminds you of a childhood friend or hear a song that was popular the first summer you fell in love, and in the space of that single beat of time you are flung backward to a who or when long past. And yet it is only for that one beat. Those tiny doors never remain open for long for most of us. They ensure our former times are kept as relics, and the dust upon them is wiped clean only occasionally

Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them.

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.