All Quotes By Tag: Thoughts

“Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.”

“Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.”

“Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.”

“To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.”

“Habit rules the unreflecting herd.”

“One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts- just mere thoughts- are as powerful as electric batteries- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got you in you may never get over it as long as you live.”

“Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.”

“Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that – thoughts.”

“Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.”

“so many thoughts, my kvothe. you know too much to be happy.”

“There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.”

“Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.”

“The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don’t necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.”

“To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.”

“X is for X-mas Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket, then all your Christmases can come at once!”