Quotes About Thoughts

Stop judging the things that fate brings you as "good" or "evil"; only judge your own thoughts, desires, and actions as good or evil. If you suppose events to be good or evil in themselves, when life doesn't go as you wish you will inevitably blame the Author.

Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weakness. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously.

People are not disturbed by things themselves, but by the views they take of those things.

It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.

There are things that are within our power, and things that fall outside our power. Within our power are our own opinions, aims, desires, dislikes—in sum, our own thoughts and actions.

We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate whenever they meet.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

I mean, I am human, got feelings and desires, and might ultimately want the same thang, but can I get a moment of mental stimulation first?

The only time I can get the thoughts to stop is when I get lost in something very creative and puzzle-like—and then I only get lost briefly. This way of life is exhausting

readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions...

I pensieri che non dici sono pensieri che pesano, che si incrostano, che ti opprimono, che ti immobilizzano, che prendono il posto delle idee nuove e che ti infettano.

Les pensées sont des femmes, on les renifle, on les suit, on s'engrise et puis brusquement, le désir bifurque et l'on va voir ailleurs.

PoÈ›i fi st?pân pe ceea ce gândeÈ™ti, dar niciodat? pe ceea ce simÈ›i.

Jeden przesÄ…d wypiera drugi. KiedyÅ› ludzie wierzyli, bo ich do tego nakÅ'aniano. DziÅ› z tego samego powodu wÄ…tpiÄ…. W obydwu przypadkach wyobra?ajÄ… sobie, ?e myÅ›lÄ…, cho? tylko powtarzajÄ…, prze?uwajÄ… opinie, doktryny dla mas, przekonania, których by? mo?e by nie podzielali, gdyby siÄ™ zastanowili.

We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what he thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally - that is, for himself - which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts.

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

The outer chains have simply been put inside of man. The desires and thoughts that the suggestion apparatus of society fills him with, chain him more thoroughly than outer chains.

The right to express our thoughts, however, means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own; freedom from external authority is a lasting gain only if the inner psychological conditions are such that we are able to establish our own individuality.

There was something so final about the man's manner that Roland was compelled to accept the dismissal, but it deeply offended him, and the unreasonable anger opened the door for evil thoughts; and evil thoughts—having a cursed and powerful vitality—immediately began to take form and to make plans for their active gratification.

Echo of your thoughts has greater impact on the world than your actions.

Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.

It is madness to think that knowing a language and reading a few books can create allegiances between people. Thoughts, books, ideas, words – if anything, they make you more alone, because they destroy whatever instinctive loyalties you may once have possessed.