Enlightened Thinker Quotes

#1. An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#2. If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

Marianne Williamson

#3. You like lies?" Shallan asked. "Good lies," Pattern said. "That lie. Good lie." "What makes a lie good?" Shallan asked, taking careful notes, recording Pattern's exact words. "True lies." "Pattern, those two are opposites." "Hmmmm . . . Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. We're terrible at so many things - remembering important dates, college, making friends - but the one thing we've always been halfway decent at is being together.

Krista Ritchie

#5. There are situations where the best solution still doesn't make everyone happy. The trick is understanding what's best.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#6. Without a goal, discipline is nothing but self-punishment.

Auliq Ice

#7. There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, 'This can't be my life.'

Laz Alonso

#8. I used to put all my doll babies on my bed with their hands up and I would do full shows for them. I'd even do the screaming and clapping. I was bugging to be a singer.

Missy Elliott

#9. I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.

Damian Marley

#10. I once saw a show about an amputee who lost his leg and still feels it. He actually wakes up at night to scratch his leg as if it's still there, attached to him. They call it a phantom limb.
I would be like that. A phantom draki, tormented with the memory of what I once was.

Sophie Jordan

#11. To think of humans as freedom-loving, you must be ready to view nearly all of history as a mistake.

John N. Gray

#12. He says under his breath, "I'm going to fuck you hard, Rose." He strokes my head and leans me to his chest. "So hard that you're not going to be able to walk in the morning."
Why does that sound so good?

Krista Ritchie

#13. For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.

Chungliang Al Huang

#14. Do not quarrel or restlessly seek for more knowledge, until you have given proper honor to what you already know.

Bryant McGill

#15. Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

Cato The Younger

#16. Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones.

Chris Hadfield