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«Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.»
«Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.»
Author: Swami Sivananda
(Founder, Monk, Physician)
| About:
Attitude,
Change,
Life,
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Wisdom
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«Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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«Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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«He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.»
«I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
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«If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.»
Author: Swami Vivekananda
(Spiritual leader)
| About:
Positive thinking
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«The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest»
«The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal -- every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open -- this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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«In common things that round us lieSome random truths he can impart, --The harvest of a quiet eyeThat broods and sleeps on his own heart.»
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