Quotes About Thoughts

My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.

Also, it was the morning and it seemed a little odd to be thinking about poetry before luncheon.

I wonder if he kissed her, Jane thought. She was surprised to hear that they had had what seemed to be quite an intelligent conversation, for she had never found Fabian very much good in that line. She had a theory that this was why he tended to make love to woman - because he couldn't really think of much to say to them.

There's nothing magic about this. It's a universal law: Our state of mind shapes our way of life.

There is no record what Asquith replied or what, in his inmost mind, a region difficult to penetrate under the best of circumstances, he thought on this crucial question.

The world is what you believe it is," was the only reply I could make to her. If you think in the back of your mind, "I don't deserve this," then it won't work. And, if on top of that, you are afraid of "bills," or even "punishment," then you will create exactly that yourself. Because, "the world is what you believe it is!

Man has no knowledge of things except by the thoughts present to his mind; that is, he can only know what is thinkable.

The only knowledge man has of his thoughts is by their expression, consequently, every material being that can be conceived by the mind exists or can exist . He may imagine what is incongruous, as the sphinx. But his imagination is a piecing together of realities, not a creation out of nothing.

Imagination has great power. If you make a picture in the mind, the vibrations of the body may adjust to it if the will is directed that way, as in thoughts of health or sickness.

Life can be so free here! There is none of that machinery of living which makes people on earth such slaves. In our world a man is held only by his thoughts. If they are free, he is free.

The mind is a friend or it is a foe.

Why must you mere mortals gamble with your own thoughts when you have the goddess of corn here to keep you from screwing up?

You just think lovely wonderful thoughts and they lift you up in the air.

You forget the things you want to remember and remember the things you want to forget.

Stell dir eine Kartoffel mit aufgemaltem Gesicht vor, dann weißt du ungefähr, wie er aussieht. Es war nicht schwer, sich auszumalen, wie sich im Innern dieser knubbeligen Kugel viel zu viele großartige Gedanken um Raum und Plätze zankten und aus Platzmangel nach außen drückten.

A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.

That you I feel up in my brain, trying to rummage around inside my head, rearrange the furniture? I don't think that'll work. I taught you everything you know, but not everything I know.

There's a difference between what you'll do in your mind and what you'll actually do for real.

Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don't count?

Store well Life's sheaves, the grains of thought-- Your harvest will be good, If sheaves are bound by ties of love, And evil you've withstood.

I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them.

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

Angele had her reservations but kept her own counsel.

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.