Quotes About Thoughts

What you think, you become.

Thoughts are often false. A feeling's always real. Not true, just real

Minds hold more than they know.

Minds hold more than they know," the tall man said.

I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulation: that is important, and this is the story about how it happened, with the pictures that lock the story in our minds. Ideologies create substantiating archives of images, representative images, which encapsulate common ideas of significance and trigger predictable thoughts, feelings.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought

Het zou me heel wat waard zijn te weten waar hij op dit moment aan dacht. Als de ene persoon zeker kon weten wat de andere persoon dacht of aan het doen was, zou eenzaamheid in de wereld misschien ophouden te bestaan.

I leaned out the window to feel the night's deep blue, the same dark air that surrounded him in Genoa or Paris or wherever he was. I would give a great deal to know what he was thinking right at this moment. If a person could know for certain what the other person was thinking or doing, then loneliness might cease to exist in the world.

In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows.

May I ask you something? Dr Greysteel nodded.Are you not afraid that it will go out? What will go out? asked Dr Greysteel. The candle, Strange gestured to Dr Greysteel's forehead. The candle inside your head.

The mind is a different organ by night and by day.

For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet. Whatever it might be, my soul acquiesced in it.

Every man's memory is his private literature."- Aldous Huxley

Only historians tell you what they thought. Research workers stick to what they did.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

I can't "Think of a nicer way to commit suicde." That's good."I can't think of a better way to commit murder

For all our penny-wisdom,'" he said, "'for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts.

it is plain that thoughts, feelings, and behavior beget like thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

William Styron says his depression was like a storm in his brain, punctuated by a thunder of self-critical, fearful, despairing thoughts—one clap following another in an endless night. Oppressed by these thoughts, people often become hopeless. Hopelessness, in an extreme form, leads people to think that only one thing can break the cycle, and that is suicide.

Words are mere tools of the mind

He could not be absolutely certain she would not get away-again. In the dark of night, haunted by such grim thoughts, Dragon found consolation. He had a fleet of ships at the ready. Before his willing Saxon bride could don boy's garb, run off a cliff, or plunge into a river, he would have her safely aboard and at sea. Damned if he wouldn't. He felt better after that and even dozed a little but was up and dressed before dawn's gray fingers peeled night away.

She had been driving all afternoon, her head an echo chamber in which both spoken words and unspoken thoughts steadily collide, one-legged runners on America's highways.