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“Your life is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great... Think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and do not allow any contradictory thoughts to take root.”

Thinking Past Life Is Wealth Reflection Roots Great Things Abundance Our Past Contradictory Your Past

Author:Rhonda Byrne

“A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.”

Way Trying Wells May Art Natural Talent Students Becoming Reflection Labor Tasks Roots Fruit Perseverance Vain Excellent Appropriate Instruction Pupils Adapted Natural Talent

Book:Selected Works

Source: Selected Works

“Avoid all refined speculations; confine yourself to simple reflections, and recur to them frequently. Those who pass too rapidly from one truth to another feed their curiosity and restlessness; they even distract their intellect with too great a multiplicity of views. Give every truth time to send down deep root into the heart.”

Giving Heart Simple Views Meditation Reflection Roots Curiosity Intellect Speculation Refined Restlessness Multiplicity Deep Roots

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?”

Doe Action Prayer Speech Reflection Roots Representatives Candid

Book:Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

“Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure.”

Love Heart Sometimes Moments Asks Names Emotion Attention Half Doors Reflection Roots Blind Stranger Shakes Host Hospitality Sanctuary Reserved Threshold Departure Precedence Accomplices

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.”

Thinking Giving Writing Film Literature Fiction Reflection Roots Give Me Science Fiction Deeper Pool

Author:Jon Spaihts

“No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.”

Needs Made Important Given Clear Reflection Perfection Roots Conviction Deeper Noble Pursuit Resolution Happy Life Bearable

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.”

Ifs Giving Mind Doe Has Beens Whole Body Lost Left Too Much Impossible Written Reflection Roots Over It Stomach Fewer Spoil Choke Nourishment Pondering Tablets Overload

Book:Essays of Schopenhauer

Source: Essays of Schopenhauer

“All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action.”

Knows Mind Ideas Self Facts Action Given Existence Consciousness Reflection Direct Roots Contact Observation Recognise Self Consciousness Inference

Book:Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

Source: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

“Suddenly so many things she'd overheard her brothers and Quinn saying when Grimm had been in residence made sense, and upon reflection she suspected a part of her had always known. Her love was a legendary warrior who had grown to despise himself, cut off from his roots. But now that he was home and given the time to explore those roots, he might be able to make peace with himself at long last.”

Long Made Home Might Able Lasts Given Known Cutting Brother Reflection Roots Warrior Despise Making Peace Legendary Residence Grimm Quinn

Book:The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle

Source: The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle

“Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich. I want to share a secret with you that few people know: the fastest way to get rich and stay rich is to work on developing you! The idea is to grow yourself into a successful person. Again, your outer world is merely a reflection of your inner world. You are the root; your results are the fruits.”