Quotes About Thoughts

We can all nod and smile and carry on our end of the conversation in an endless loop while our minds float somewhere outside our bodies. We are thinking about our kids, about finances and fiancees and soon-to-be ex wives, about the sex we're not having, the sex our soon-to-be ex wives are having, about loneliness and love and death and Dad, and this constant crowd is like a fog on a dark road; you just keep driving and watch it dissipate in your low beams.

According to studies, negating your thoughts and emotions may result in a paradoxical consequence in which they can impact you even more. You lose control over your inner experiences when you deny and suppress them. You could interpret that as a warning not to worry about a pink elephant. Your perception is still based on the denied material.

You've run a lot of risks, and gone to a lot of work, and all to turn me into a bullet for your gun. But I'm a bullet that thinks for itself, and I want to know what I'm being shot at.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. Nineteen Eighty-Four             MYAUNGMYA

As in Hegel's "struggle of the enlightenment with superstition," in his Phenomenology of Spirit of 1807, enlightenment was the dominion of "pure insight and its diffusion," and it seeped into men's thoughts like a "perfume," or like an "infection."47

Taquipsiquia» es una palabra que yo no conocía. La oí por primera vez en labios del primer psiquiatra del que fui paciente, un hombre tierno y humano a quien guardo gratitud. La taquipsiquia es como la taquicardia, pero para la actividad mental. Los pensamientos son erráticos, discontinuos, estridentes. Se agitan en todos los sentidos, demasiado rápido. Se arremolinan e hieren. Son vrittis pero centuplicados, una tempestad de vrittis, vrittis bajo el efecto de la cocaína. Esto

Le due fette più grosse del mio aerogramma mentale sono costituite dalle elucubrazioni legate al lavoro e dalle fantasie sessuali.

Porque lo interesante de la meditación –y esto podría ser una segunda definición– es crear en uno mismo una especie de testigo que espía el remolino de pensamientos sin dejarse arrastrar por ellos.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

What you think upon grows. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things (Philippians 4:8).

Whatever you experience in your life is really but the out picturing of your own thoughts and beliefs.

la clave  de  la vida  es edificar un equivalente mental de lo que  deseas y eliminar  los  equivalentes de  lo  que   no  quieres.

Mio Dio", pensava Alex, camminandole accanto. Si sentiva più alto di svariati centimetri, camminava accanto a lei e pensava: "Ma questa non è una ragazza, è un intero disco di Battisti".

la magia de la vida hace que lo que pensamos, a la larga se vaya haciendo realidad.

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Las ideas son el "papel moneda" de la mente y son convertibles, y se tornan en dinero

He knew exactly what thoughts—emotions, rather—would be filling Pakenham's breast. The same that would have been filling his own, had Ross still been in command. Doubts, hesitations, fears, second thoughts, quibbles, uncertainties—all those, Pakenham would be burning on the altar this very moment.

If I had a dime for every time I've heard that one", thought Larry, knowing that spec-change-no-problem was a fantasy. "And

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

one's thoughts were regulated by the power of the state, how could one really be free?

Bonhoeffer recognized that standard-issue "religion" had made God small, having dominion only over those things we could not explain. That "religious" God was merely the "God of the gaps," the God who concerned himself with our "secret sins" and hidden thoughts. But Bonhoeffer rejected this abbreviated God.

human beings were taken from the earth and don't just consist of thin air and thoughts.