Quotes About Thoughts

The physical body is an agent of the spirit and its mirror. It is an engine and a reflection of the spirit. It is the spirit's ingenious memorandum to itself and the spirit sees itself in my body, just as I see my own face in a looking glass. My nerves reflect this. The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.

He knew he would think better clearer thoughts after bathing in the sea. His mother had believed in the good effects of bathing, but she had died so young.

If a man disliked you, he would dislike you for all the reasons he could think of.

Even in a few minutes' conversation, do you realize how many times what you feel is converted before it comes out as what you say?

Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.

I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.

The thoughts you allow into your head are the code that programs your mind and body.

The things that you think about the most will irrationally rise in importance in your mind.

What's wrong with the world? It's easy to probe the ills of the nation, the Church, and the planet and come up with a grave diagnosis... But it takes all the strength we can muster to stand at Mass and honestly say, 'I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and what I have failed to do... Sin is not out there; it's deep inside you and me... What's wrong with the world? I am, because I sin, and my sins well up from the darkness in my own heart.

Sometimes the thoughts in my head get so bored they go out for a stroll through my mouth. This is rarely a good thing.

Thoughts come back; beliefs persist; facts pass by never to return.

En inan?lmaz ?eylere bile inanmaya programlanm???z ve bunlar haf?zam?za bir kez kaz?nd? m?, onlar? silmeye çal??an?n vay haline

Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.

Een engel! - Jaja, dat zegt iedereen over de zijne, is het niet? Maar ik ben nu eenmaal niet in staat je te vertellen hoe volmaakt ze is, waarom ze volmaakt is; laat het je genoeg zijn dat ze op al mijn gedachten beslag heeft gelegd.

I'm not beautiful, Becca. Only women are." "On the contrary." She gave him a most tender look. "Angels are,too." He groaned and rolled her under him again. "I'm not an angel,either. Angels don't have carnal thoughts like these." He kissed her deeply.

He wondered if her spy had stumbled upon his last night. When did he start thinking like his mother?

If you don't control your mind, someone else will.

I have only my intermittent life in your thoughts to live Which is like thinking in another language. Everything Depends on whether somebody reminds you of me.

I think my poems mean what they say, and whatever might be implicit within a particular passage, but there is no message, nothing I want to tell the world particularly except what I am thinking when I am writing.

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, for all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see

I am not going to call the alien brain I am stuck inside of by the name I am totally buggered—this damnified thing is in my brain like a devil from hell—and it is reading my thoughts, eating my goddamn mind! AAARRGH! For one thing, it is too long." Perhaps it could be called simply AAARRGH! That was much shorter.

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind is large and open, like Buckminster Fuller's. She found thoughts dull that suggest that men are superior to animals or plants.