Quotes About Thoughts

There are dead thoughts and there are living thoughts. A dead thought has been compared to a stone which one may plant in the soil. Nothing will come out. A living thought is like a seed. In the process of thinking, an answer without a question is devoid of life. It may enter the mind; it will not penetrate the soul. It may become a part of one's knowledge; it will not come forth as a creative force.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

Rachel shivers with a mixture of fascination and revulsion. How can she think about this sort of thing so glibly? Is that what trauma does to you?

I know what you're thinking; you're thinking: it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances. Well you're not the Mikado and I'm not Mr Gilbert.

Energy has to be fed from a source. If you don't feed the source, it dissipates entirely. Same is true of liking a boy. If you cut off the thoughts, if you stop pinning, you're free to find a boy who is attainable.

please know you will always be in my heart, and when I think of you, I will say a prayer of gratitude. I wish you the best in all aspects of your life, as I know no one is more deserving of happiness than you.

First you understand the Dhamma with your thoughts. If you begin to understand it, you will practice it. And if you practice it, you will begin to see it, you are the Dhamma and you have the joy of the Buddha.

Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours.

Books should be full of stuff you could never say to people in public.

one must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself

All the seriousness of his plans depends on a steady flow of blood to his brain through vulnerable network of capillaries.

Proust was not well place to enjoy honest friendships. For a start, he had far too many true but unkind thoughts about people.

painless thoughts...and painful thoughts...there are two methods by which a person can acquire wisdom, and he proposes that the painful variety is the far superior

Het zou goed zijn als we structuur verleende aan ons innerlijke leven en onze beste gedachten te versterken, om tegengewicht te bieden aan constante afleidingen en versnippering.

What an achievement a moment of calm now is, what a minor miracle the ability to fall asleep or to talk undistracted with a friend – and what monastic discipline would be required to make us turn away from the maelstrom of news and listen for a day to nothing but the rain and our own thoughts.

One seldom was able to do her a good turn without some thoughts of strangulation.

The future you expect is a projection of your beliefs about the past. The future will be like the past only if you keep thinking the same thoughts

Your thoughts do not create reality. They either permit it or they do not.

En la vida todo se basa en el poder de la mente sobre la materia.

Geographical cures rarely work. You can extricate yourself from a place, but you cannot escape your own thoughts. Move somewhere to get away from an uncomfortable situation, and you will likely recreate the drama with a few set of actors playing the same roles. Heal your mind, and you are free anywhere.

All limits exist only in thought, and that is where they are overcome.

No fue el acto lo que te hirió, sino cómo lo interpretaste. Del mismo modo que elegiste una interpretación que te hizo sufrir, también puedes elegir una que te cure. «Puedo elegir cambiar todos los pensamientos que me causan dolor» (L, Lección 284). A

Only the fearful mind goes to catastrophic fantasies.