Quotes About Thoughts

Even the most absurd things are nothing other than symbols for thoughts which are not only understandable in human terms but dwell in every human breast. In intensity we do not discover anything new and unknown; we are looking at the foundations of our own being, the matrix of those vital problems on which we are all engaged.

He knew he wouldn't sleep. Couldn't. The things Larry had told him swirled around the dark ceiling, darting in and out of his consciousness. He hoped strands of what he knew would somehow miraculously connect and he'd sit bolt upright with an epiphany and suddenly know the connections as well as the answers. Didn't happen.

Dakota shrugged. "I don't know what the hell is going on, but something is. You look ahead of us at all those people on horses in this setting, and you think, what a perfect thing. But what you don't know is what's going on in everyone's head, and what they might be thinking about everyone else. "That," she said, "is the reason I prefer horses.

This light that could be either enlightenment or madness fills my head.

solitude is about what's happening in your brain, not the environment around you. Accordingly, they define it to be a subjective state in which your mind is free from input from other minds.

In an open marketplace for attention, darker emotions attract more eyeballs than positive and constructive thoughts.

Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on." In

As Kethledge and Erwin explain, however, solitude is about what's happening in your brain, not the environment around you. Accordingly, they define it to be a subjective state in which your mind is free from input from other minds. You can enjoy solitude in a crowded coffee shop, on a subway car, or, as President Lincoln discovered at his cottage, while sharing your lawn with two companies of Union soldiers, so long as your mind is left to grapple only with its own thoughts.

A little self-reflection, however, makes clear that our brains are hardly ever actually thinking about nothing. Even without a specific task, they tend to remain highly active, with thoughts and ideas flitting by in an ongoing noisy chatter. On further self-reflection, Lieberman realized that this background hum of activity tends to focus on a small number of targets: thoughts about "other people, yourself, or both.

This includes, crucially, checking e-mail, as well as browsing work-related websites. In both cases, even a brief intrusion of work can generate a self-reinforcing stream of distraction that impedes the shutdown advantages described earlier for a long time to follow (most people are familiar, for example, with the experience of glancing at an alarming e-mail on a Saturday morning and then having its implications haunt your thoughts for the rest of the weekend).

claim: "Only thoughts reached by walking have value." To underscore his esteem for walking, Nietzsche also notes: "The sedentary life is the very sin against the Holy Spirit.

As Gallagher summarizes: "Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on.

Gallagher'in veciz bir ?ekilde özetledi?i gibi: Kim oldu?unuz, ne dü?ündü?ünüz, ne hissetti?iniz, ne yapt???n?z, neyi sevdi?iniz odakland???n?z ?eylerin toplam?d?r.

Thinking about dark and troublesome things, wondering when they'll come to pay you a visit, turns out to be the very best way to call them to your side.

When someone refuses to speak, those around him are left to imagine what his thoughts might be, and all too often the possibilities conjured up are not pleasant ones...Sometimes, no matter how much you wish to proclaim them, it is better to keep your thoughts to yourself. Speaking out when someone else is silent puts the speaker at a disadvantage.

Thoughts were zipping around my head like fireflies in a jar, bumping into each other, blinking on and off.

Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only silence

Tus vacas son creencias que albergas en tu pensamiento

El mensaje de Nervo es simple: si siembras un pensamiento negativo, cosecharás un pobre hábito. Siembra un pobre hábito y, en el mejor de los casos, cosecharás un futuro incierto.

El peligro está en que una vez esa idea ha sido plantada en tu mente, te conviertes en su esclavo.

Nunca te expongas a ideas negativas,

te convertirás en aquello en lo que pienses constantemente.

William Shakespeare called dreams the 'children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

If we make choices unconsciously, moved by a reaction to outer circumstances or driven by our own random and chaotic thoughts, we have habituated ourselves to being constrained in a mental prison created by our own lack of understanding.