Quotes About Thoughts

We've let selfish and sinful attitudes poison our thoughts and lead us into shameful behaviors, and suddenly all we want is out.

Every one of these cartoons is just something that drifted into my head when I was alone with my thoughts. And, for better or worse, I 'jotted' them down. It was only later, when perhaps I received an angry letter from someone, that it struck me: Hey! Someone's been reading my diary!

Which voice do you hear? Which is louder, the negative critic or the positive coach? You can choose to listen to the voice that offers and reinforces positive thought. It has been said that thoughts become words. Words become actions. Actions become habits. Habits become character. Character becomes your destiny.

To mention a colorful example, the nineteenth-century German scientist Karl Vogt once wrote that "thoughts stand in the same relation to the brain as gall does to the liver or urine to the kidneys." When he expressed this idea in public, a philosopher interjected that the longer one listens to Professor Vogt, the more one tends to believe him. Clearly, more sophisticated ideas and models are in demand.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

a miracle according to the Course being a shift in perception 14 over to the Holy Spirit's way of thinking, and not merely a modification of your own thoughts, forms or circumstances.

the ego is just a thought — and thoughts can be changed.

You are much too tolerant of mind wandering, and are passively condoning your mind's miscreations.

Your job is to go back to the source of the problem — the mind and not the world — and change your mind through forgiveness.

In a relationship I can influence—but not control—the thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and behavior of another.

Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

The most dangerous thief is unwholesome thought.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.

You'll be thinking of me. You may not be thinking good thoughts, but you'll be thinking of me.

I don't believe in such a thing as the criminal mind. Everyone's mind is criminal; we're all capable of criminal fantasies and thoughts.

It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.

Thoughts are like raindrops,' he persisted, introducing yet another of his interminable images. 'They fall, make a splash and then dry up. But the world of wyrd is like the mighty oceans from which raindrops arise and to which they return in rivers and streams.

Ninety-Five percent of the things we worry about in life never actually happen but that's the human brain for you. It can help us do all kinds of wonderful things but can also be an absolute nightmare!

The only prison we can never escape is our brain, and yet our brain is what sets us free.

The mind of man is never so cunning as when it is involved in the art of self-justification.

A man of few words is often a man of few thoughts; or he can be someone whose thoughts are best kept to himself.

Our thoughts and actions have consequences, all the more reason to be loving and compassionate and not fearful or harmful. They create our destiny and our future.

Instantly I comprehended the truth of these thoughts. Reality is the present. Dwelling in the past or future causes pain and illness. Patience can stop time. God's love is everything.

Los objetivos son deshacerse de los pensamientos y las emociones negativos y descubrir la paz, la alegría y la felicidad interiores.