Quotes About Thoughts

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer.Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God,setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.

For the one who has learned to regard God in everything he does is at the same time being drawn away from every vain thought.

For though our eyes, in what direction soever they turn, are forced to behold the works of God, we see how fleeting our attention is, and holy quickly pious thoughts, if any arise, vanish away.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of a sleeping mind.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

Letters] never failed to surprise and please him, because they reminded him that he existed in other people's thoughts.

He was just thinking aloud, ruling out possibilities by releasing them into the air, like canaries in the coal mine of his mind.

The mind is a theater. It cannot be allowed to go dark. It must be maintained.

This killing of his 'mythology' how could he survive it? His 'mythology' had been his escape from life, his escape into a world where machinery could not reach him, his escape into a deep, green, lovely world where thoughts unfolded themselves like large, beautiful leaves growing out of fathoms of blue-green water!

Dear love, for nothing less than thee Would I have broke this happy dream; It was a theme For reason, much too strong for fantasy, Therefore thou wak'd'st me wisely; yet My dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it. Thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffice To make dreams truths, and fables histories; Enter these arms, for since thou thought'st it best, Not to dream all my dream, let's act the rest.

Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Memory is a rascal.

Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.

Believe in all the good things you keep inside There is no freedom in life without freedom of mind.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

As far as my own dreams, I'm not a big dreamer, I think obviously we suppress things in life, emotions and thoughts, and we should wake up and look at that.

No matter whether your life is pleasant or good; whether you are having big challenges or no challenges, your state of your mind has everything to do with how you will relate to your experiences.

I am not my thoughts, feelings, circumstances of changing events in life, I am the awareness, the alertness, the changeless which remains present behind it.