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Quotes About Thoughts

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn't believe them, I didn't suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. That joy is in everyone, always.
~ Byron Katie
A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It's not our thoughts, but the attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it's true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we've been attaching to, often for years.
~ Byron Katie
The basic realization that other people can't possibly be your problem, that it's your thoughts about them that are the problem—this realization is huge. This one insight will shake your whole world, from top to bottom
~ Byron Katie
I'm supposed to sleep at three o'clock in the morning"—is that true? I don't think so: I'm wide awake. When I wake up in the middle of the night, I get very excited. What could be better than sleep? Waking! I love lying in bed in the middle of the night with my eyes wide open, because that's what I'm doing. There's no thought that I should be doing anything else. I love all my thoughts.
~ Byron Katie
Is it true?        2. Can you absolutely know that it's true?        3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?        4. Who would you be without the thought?
~ Byron Katie
I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered," Katie says, "but that when I didn't believe them, I didn't suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional.
~ Byron Katie
A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It's not our thoughts, but the attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering.
~ Byron Katie
El sufrimiento es una alarma natural que nos alerta de que nos estamos apegando a un pensamiento; cuando no escuchamos, llegamos a aceptar ese sufrimiento como una parte inevitable de la vida, pero no lo es.
~ Byron Katie
A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered mind.
~ C.E. Murphy
All thinking things fear. Sentience, perhaps, is facing that fear and conquering it rather than succumbing. A tiger will drown in a tar pit, but a man who can clear his thoughts may survive.
~ C.E. Murphy
If you are anything like me, you do a lot of listening to yourself everyday.
~ C.J. Mahaney
to occupy her mind apart from Patrik and his family. His sister, Lotta, lived in Gothenburg
~ Camilla Lackberg
Il ciriveddro è 'na gran camurria di machina che non sulo non s'arresta mai, ma t'obbliga a pinsari a quello che voli lui
~ Camilleri Andrea
He lives in his memories
~ Can Xue
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
~ Carl Sagan
We live in condensations of our imagination
~ Terence McKenna
They became sleepwalkers in a world of half-dreams and rambling thoughts with no break in the wearing march or the never-ending, silent black trunks that came and passed in countless thousands.
~ Terry Brooks
Dar gândurile lui erau sec?tuite È™i sumbre È™i, în t?cerea ce le urm?, se pomeni fa??-n fa?? cu spectrul rânjit al propriei disper?ri.
~ Terry Brooks
Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person. We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence.
~ Terry Goodkind
There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue.
~ Terry Goodkind
Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander, the great and honorable wizard, stood alone on the wizard's rock his father had given him, and stared out into the night, thinking wizard's thoughts. "Nothing is ever easy," he whispered.
~ Terry Goodkind
Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person. "We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence. Between those thoughts, there is nothing, simply the body, waiting for our thoughts to make us who we are.
~ Terry Goodkind
It is the mind that makes the person who they are, --- - Anna to Nicci. (Pg. 245)
~ Terry Goodkind
price. There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake.
~ Terry Goodkind