Ruminative Thought Quotes

#1. I could not help but see the hand of the balancer in all of this. Could hatred and determination be a counterweight to organization and experience? I suddenly understood something about the old god of death and why he was also the god of balances.

Robin Hobb

#2. It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks

Johnny Cash

#3. That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

William Hazlitt

#4. True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

May Sarton

#5. Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.

Jean Monnet

#6. Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

Maria Montessori

#7. As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.

Harry Johnston

#8. Deepening awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of one's thoughts fosters a new relationship with them, creating the space to purposefully shift mental focus away from the ruminative thought patterns that pave the road to suffering.

Dan Mager

#9. It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy.

P.G. Wodehouse