Quotes About Thought

And I wondered, who is it that's aware that I'm thinking? And suddenly I was thrown into this amazing feeling of freedom. I was no longer a fragment of the universe, I was the universe." ~Jim Carrey

There are certain days that are forever locked in our memories. They represent special times, places, and people that we capture in the scrapbook of our minds. Just a fleeting thought of these memories can bring us back to that special time and place as well as the emotion we felt when we were there.

The continuum of infinite, immortal Life is occasionally interrupted by a brief stroll into a body of highly limiting thought. Jim Young, Author of 'Aware in a World Asleep' and more!

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

thinking divorced from action lacks productivity

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.

Something is visiting, but it may not be the muse...

toda ação principia mesmo é por uma palavra pensada

And thought shaped everything, though not as it wanted but as it must, though what it must was what it wanted, though as it went where it wanted it went where it must go.

Jule was a poet—poetry was like psi, she said, like thought, a thing that compressed images to essence.

I don't know what I think until I write it down.

So I've held on to Catholicism or Zen, as practices, as fantasy futures, as possible identities. But when I actually dare to lower myself down into this emptiness—no, that sounds entirely too dualistic and willful and "courageous"—but when this seeing suddenly happens and thought relaxes, Zen drops completely away, and something much deeper is contacted, some entirely other way of being.

Man is...a thinking erratum, that's what he is. Every season of life is an edition that corrects the one before and which will also be corrected itself until the definitive edition, which the publisher gives to the worms gratis.

The only real elegance is in the mind; If you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

She thought to herself how amazing it was that she was here, walking at dusk with an old pirate-her (italics), May! If only Somber Kitty could have seen her. Maybe he would see her, soon. The thought lifted her spirits.

want to read

Concept-work as I conceive it demands "mobile thought," Foucault's term, in advocating an "ethics of discomfort.

A sentence has a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought. However,

thought had been to escape

Intense psychological stress tends to shut down the part of the brain responsible for innovative, creative thought.

Alice nodded in vague agreement, but it seemed too early for gossip, like going on vacation and buying a house on the first day. She thought, But we don't know any of these people. I don't know you. We're all strangers.

I am. I think. I will. ... What must I say besides? These are the words. This is the answer.

I don't know if you're alive or dead. Can you on earth be sought, or only when the sunsets fade be mourned secretly in my thought? All is for you: the daily prayer, the sleepless heat at night, and of my verses, the white flock, and of my eyes, the blue fire. No-one was more cherished, no-one tortured me more, not even the one who betrayed me to torture, not even the one who caressed me and forgot.