#thoughts

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#animal #belong #consciousness #difficult #feelings

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#appreciation #form #good #highest #highest form

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#deceptive #destiny #example #found #mirror

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind. ↗

— George William Curtis

#best #deeds #distinguished #fame #favorable

I've realized why I don't tell the truth in interviews. It's because they're printed months later, and you change so quickly - you have new thoughts, new everything - so people are reading an old version of you. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#change #everything #i #interviews #later

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#doing #doing good #enough #examples #follow

Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#comrades #countries #expressing #i #information

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. ↗

— James Joyce

#best #interpreters #men #their #thoughts

Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it. ↗

— Kato Kaelin

#could #done #go #i #mind

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? ↗

— Walt Whitman

#i #large #me #never #thoughts