Quotes About Thoughts

The feeling of being unguarded and unable to follow a mental thread was relentless.

Your thoughts are as squishy as the rest of you.

The voice in my head was sounding more and more like Singer with every passing day.

Perhaps I had been dreaming, processing and refining old memories in the way you're supposed to process and refine newer ones.

Why is your species so full of horrible ideas?

Fyodor Dostoevsky: "Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.

I awoke with a renewed understanding of why it is wise to retire to bed come nightfall. For evil thoughts take strength from the dark, while hope thrives in the light.

Some of my ideas get enlarged almost before I have them.

The Dhammapada, a collection of sayings of the Buddha, tells us: "What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday…. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering follows him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart…. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.

Life is intricate. Not everything can be categorized into neat generalities, even in our spiritual life. Yes, the circumstances of life are the result of our good and not-so-good thoughts, words and deeds come full circle. But not always.

Lo que somos hoy es consecuencia de nuestros pensamientos de ayer», enseñaba el Buda Gautama.

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes.

When you cultivate a godly thought life your soul will shine and you will exhibit the presence of the Lord in you.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Since she had had to lead this shut-in invalid life she had found illness involved suffering almost as much from the tyranny of painful thoughts as from physical pain

Shame could wrench just as fear did. Thinking how other men would have behaved in his place was the most searching form of humiliation that he knew; and he knew a good many.

Ferranti's thoughts had been his. As before he had understood his remorse so now he understood the mental chains that had imprisoned him. The poor wretch could not move. Misery had become apathy and apathy had brought the inevitable paralysis of the will.

After almost a lifetime spent in prayer and contemplation she had believed that at least she had her thoughts well disciplined, but as one got older, one's hard-won control slipped a little and one felt sometimes as though spiritually one were back again in one's youth, with all the battles to fight again.

How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions - they have their own morality and nothing else matters.

This isn't normal. This isn't how normal people think. Fuck off, world--what the hell is normal anyway?

El objetivo de la meditación es obtener un estado más relajado y libre de estrés. Es llevarse a uno mismo adentro de su mente y enfocarse en canalizar y concentrar en pensamientos que calmarán su mente. Es una manera de silenciar los pensamientos que distraen