Quotes About Thoughts

Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, by contrast, seems to just sit there.

How you think about what you are doing affects how you do it, or whether you do it at all.

It's always thoughts of family that drive me crazy, and it's always my friends who bring me back. Agents of Light and Darkness p.218

If they could only have gathered their thoughts for a moment, they would have known these fears weren't real

The happiness of children is based on their ignorance of what their parents are really thinking

What exactly she was thinking I never knew. Perhaps of the crop and the whole day's stoking lost. Perhaps of the stranger who had come with his cornet for a day, and then as meaninglessly gone again. For she had been listening too, and she may have understood. A harvest, however lean, is certain every year; but a cornet at night is golden only once. (Cornet at Night)

You can have a slouch in your mind as well as you back.

And then Gwalchmai said, 'No one should distract an ordained knight from his thoughts in a discourteous way, for perhaps he has either suffered a loss or he is thinking about the woman he loves best.

Be careful not to make your mind your biggest enemy.

Our minds get abused when we mind tomorrow, but they are free when we focus on today.

Possibilities will only be overpowered by the negative thoughts.

Over-mastered by some thoughts, I yeelded an inckie tribute unto them.

To keep our eyes open longer were but to act our Antipodes. The huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep? or have slumbering thoughts at that time, when sleep itself must end, and, as some conjecture, all shall awake again?

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

We can't remember our infancies, but they live in our bodies, and had I not been frail at birth, I would have been someone else, and I would have had other thoughts.

My senses remained on high alert, and even thinking back on that time makes me feel giddy. I could never have a similar experience now. I have too much behind me, too many references, stories, too many years of thoughts.

Everyone has an inner life that is as large and complex and rich as my own.

If you do nursing or that type of work long enough, you become a healer in your own thoughts. You're cycling love, so you can stay a little more sane in the midst of it.

Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.

Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.

Your thoughts and actions not only influence your mood, but the moods of all you cross paths with. Thinking lovingly. Do lovingly. Be a messenger for love.

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.