Quotes About Thoughts

The body is entirely neutral, my lady. It just likes sex. It's the mind that fucks up our compass.

Your brain can only produce one or two thoughts" in your conscious mind at once. That's it. "We're very, very single-minded." We have "very limited cognitive capacity." This is because of the "fundamental structure of the brain," and it's not going to change. But rather than acknowledge this, Earl told me, we invented a myth. The myth is that we can actually think about three, five, ten things at the same time.

Second, when your mind wanders, it starts to make new connections between things—which often produces solutions to your problems.

Third, during mind-wandering, your mind will—Nathan said—engage in "mental time-travel," where it roams over the past and tries to predict the future.

I would start once again to have strong recurring thoughts that said: life is pointless; everything you're doing is pointless; this whole thing is a fucking waste of time. It would be a thrum of unending anxiety.

Stress isn't something imposed on us. It's something we impose on ourselves." Stress is a feeling. Stress is a series of thoughts. If you just learn how to think differently—to quiet down your rattling thoughts—your stress will melt away. So you just need to learn to meditate. Your stress comes from a failure to be mindful.

If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.

The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Think of you! I do not think of you; you are always before my soul.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

What you feed in yourself that grows.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts.

Every thought and every word you speak is an affirmation. So why not choose to use only positive affirmations to create an exceptional life? I know you can do it!

Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life

Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

It isn't enough just to do right things and say right things, you must also think right things before your life can come into harmony.

At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed.