Quotes About Thoughts

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen but by their opinions about those things.

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.

Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.

The decisions we make and the way we behave are what ultimately shape our character. Charles A. Hall aptly described that process in these lines: "We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Now, when your thoughts, your feeling, and your etheric memories dwell upon imperfection, you slow down the vibratory action of your electrons, and then the substance of the psychic and astral realm closes in around them, lowering the entire vibration of your four lower bodies. In this way, you become an easy prey to depression, poverty, ill-health, to any number of the various negative aspects which mankind at large mirror and outpicture today.

Change tomorrow with new thoughts.

The best software doesn't speed up a slow processor. Unblock your conscience before starting to update yourself, if your attitudes are not compatible with thoughts, your self-esteem has a virus, if it does not format, disconnect from the internet and turn off bluetooth.

The conscience that only thinks about appearance does not suffer the consequence."

Use your thoughts so you don't atrophy the brain.

and all I ever really wonder is if you think about me when I'm not there.

Look around you—everyone here has their own internal monologue.

Dumme Gedanken hat jeder, aber der Weise verschweigt sie.

The future of the human race depends on your thoughts and actions. But your teachers and masters don't tell you how you really think and what you really are; no one dares to confront you with the one truth that might make you the unswerving master of your fate. You are "free" in only one respect: free from the self-criticism that might help you to govern your own life.

social existence remains a dream only because the thoughts and feelings of the human animal are blocked off from the simple and obvious.

I am thinking,' he remarked quietly, 'whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

impressions, feelings, and inclinations; when endorsed by System 2 these become beliefs, attitudes, and intentions

Too much concern about how well one is doing in a task sometimes disrupts performance by loading short-term memory with pointless anxious thoughts. The conclusion is straightforward: self-control requires attention and effort.

avoiding the thought of white bears inhibiting the emotional response to a stirring film making a series of choices that involve conflict trying to impress others responding kindly to a partner's bad behavior interacting with a person of a different race (for prejudiced individuals)

Pain and noise are biologically set to be signals that attract attention, and depression involves a self-reinforcing cycle of miserable thoughts. There is therefore no adaptation to these conditions.