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“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”

Rene Descartes

“Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness”.

Buddha

“Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.”

James Allen

“Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things.”

Philippians 4:8

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.”

John Dewey

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”

Benjamin Disraeli

“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”

Albert Einstein

“We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that.”

John Emerick

“What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson,

“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peal

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“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”

Abraham Lincoln

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”

Albert Einstein

“Thought once awakened does not again slumber.”

Thomas Carlyle

“Learning to see the structure within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.”

Peter Senge

“The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have, and therefore should be secured, because they seldom return again.”

John Locke

“Like success, failure is many things to many people. With positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.”

W. Clement Stone

“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”

Henry David Thoreau

“It's the questions we cant answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he learns is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”

Patrik Rothfuss

“The mind, which sometimes presumes to believe that there is no such thing as a mircale, is itself a miracle.”

Scott Peck

Welcome to Metathoughts

This site is dedicated to the power of thoughts, the driving force in our lives.

My name is Manuela Glasbrenner and I started the Metathoughts website because I am passionate about the capability of the human mind to sculpt one's identity and future according to one's ideals. I apply this both as a coach and facilitator within the paradigm of Positive Psychology. Read more

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    Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:06:50 +0000

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    Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:41:07 +0000

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