Quotes About Thoughts

No había nada más peligroso, pensó, que un hombre paciente.

From our simplest habits to our most destructive behaviors, our actions are the direct results of our mental programming. Both psychologists and biblical scholars agree that it is almost impossible for individuals to behave inconsistently with what they believe about themselves. Your mind will naturally go in the direction of your most prevalent thoughts.

There is no greater grief in misery than to turn our thoughts back to happier times.*

What sweet thoughts, what longing led them to the woeful pass.

las mujeres no sospechan que los varones podemos pasar horas enteras sin pensar, literalmente.

Every single time a self-doubting or fearful thought enters your mind, realize it, reject it, and replace it with faith.

The brain is an irrelevant topic of the century.

Lynchings—they're hate crimes," he said. "But the kid who thinks that [wearing a skirt] is anomalous and decides to play a prank is not committing a hate crime.

not all your brain goes to sleep when you do. It leaves a night watch on duty, and often the night watch can find answers that your waking brain missed.

C'était une de ces scènes qui se gravent dans votre tête pour se transformer en souvenir. Au bout du compte, de quoi la vie est-elle faite sinon de souvenirs 

those who experienced the "Thank God it wasn't me" response. Having this thought race through your mind upon seeing violent death is arguably one of the deepest, darkest, most shameful of all human responses. However, when you tell people that it is a normal thought, it is as if a huge weight has been lifted, and their sense of shame no longer has power to hurt them.

Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Thoughts, however upsetting, foul, disgusting, annoying, and so on, are just never dangerous. It's discomfort, not danger.

When you're under the influence of this belief, you tend to act as if the simple act of worrying can change the future, that it might prevent bad events from happening that would have otherwise happened. I'm not referring here to situations in which your thoughts lead you to take action, and those actions influence the future. Here I mean that people treat worry itself as something that can affect the future.

When are we motivated to distract ourselves from unpleasant and worrisome thoughts? When we're not facing a clear and present danger. When the chips are not down. When the babbling of our cerebral cortex, rather than the self-defense of our amygdala, is center stage.

The more effort you make to get those thoughts out of your head, the more your mind will justify the effort by viewing the thoughts as dangerous. The truth is, thoughts simply aren't dangerous. Actions can be dangerous; thoughts can only be unpleasant. If thoughts were dangerous, the obituary pages would be banned. There's no such thing as a "killer joke." The more you use distraction, the more you strengthen this impression that thoughts can be hazardous.

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we are gripped with obsessions and are oblivious to everything going on around us as thoughts continually repeat themselves.

Mental violence, whether acted out or not, still releases bile and other gastric juices, and extra adrenaline pumps through the body. The effect of our thoughts on our health remains a major unexplored territory in medicine.

Free-flowing thoughts can be our greatest asset when we are in a creative mode, but when an unruly mental process limits our awareness, the mind becomes an oppressor.

Every meditator carries an enormous amount of baggage in the form of mental static. This provides fuel for noisy thought-engines that seem to be constantly running.

Govor nam je potreban koliko i vazduh koji udišemo, jer se govorom osloba?amo pritiska nerealizovanih misli, pri?a i re?enica. ?utanje može da ubije - i onoga koji ?uti, kao i onoga koji sluša.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.