Quotes About Thoughts

O medo nunca é irracional.

Because how you think determines who you are, it also determines who you are becoming and who you ultimately become.

What I mean is that our subconscious works on whatever problem we give it to solve. Therefore, if one asks bad questions, one's mind descends to a state in which we work to furnish bad answers. Bad questions feed the black dog because they prompt negative thoughts. Then, of course, the black dog begins to feed on us.

When you focus on the things you need," he went on to explain, "you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don't have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don't have — and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose … But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

What a person thinks is determined by how a person thinks. This is true whether the conclusion at which a person arrives is accurate, safe, and profitable — or stupid and vicious.

Remember, whatever you focus upon, increases . . . . When you focus on the things you need , you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don't have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don't have--and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose. But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

The task of watering the arid desert between Reagan's ears is a challenging one for his aides." And, continuing with the water imagery, a California legislator said, "You could walk through Ronald Reagan's deepest thoughts and not get your ankles wet.

Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.

Most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind. But actually it's … about stepping back, seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going.

As Paul Naeger reminds us in his excellent article Red Flag Decision Making, Emotions serve a purpose, informing us what to do. If our brain comes across something and categorizes it as a "red flag," we will be notified through thoughts and feelings created by emotion. This "red flag" alerts us to pay attention. Our emotions act as a cueing system notifying us to pay attention and take action.

We all feel shame when we're sitting on the cushion and stuff pops up in our head.

This is some kind of heretical, possibly Manichean version of neo-Platonic Roscicrucianism, thinks I to myself; tread carefully, girlie!

Captain Hornby thought this a very sensible idea. He knew, and Elsa knew, that the unspoken thought underlying her suggestion was, "If you are killed your lawyers will know what is here"; a thought which, spoken and unspoken, must underlie most people's arrangements now.

Los envidiosos poseen el don de hacer daño con la única fuerza de su pensamiento. Ellos pueden lograr que, en tus manos, las flores se conviertan en ortigas.

the more people there are to think a thought, the uglier and more crippled and deformed the poor thought gets.

This was somehow a day on which concentration would not be possible, a day on which words must give way to images

Memory is more indelible than ink.

People who were dying: their minds always raced past whatever was being said, and still the pain went faster, leapfrogging ahead.

When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.

Better not think about Mrs Barum either; it was really such a strain going on being fair.

she thought envy was the most destructive of emotions. It ate away at your guts and your brain and it stopped you thinking straight. Envy and jealousy.

He wasn't given to strange thoughts, but it occurred to him suddenly that Mardle was toxic. There was something unhealthy in the air.

And while all those thoughts were rattling around in her brain something else was going on too. An excitement. Because this was a new case that was different from anything she'd ever worked before. Two bodies, connected but not lying together. And nothing made her feel as alive as murder.

Sometimes she'd scream at him, laughing but irritated too. 'How can you just sit there? What is going on inside your head?' He was never quite sure how to answer. Stories, he thought. I just tell myself stories.