Quotes About Thoughts

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

I have no inner monologue.

Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.

Our concerns aren't always appropriate or morally elevated.

I'm one of those people who, as long as I am still healthy and my thoughts are more or less clear, I don't think I can retire entirely.

Bedtime is when I get most anxious because I have time to contemplate. I'm also more likely to question my mortality and catastrophise if I've seen or heard something upsetting about somebody.

My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.

I think everything is a motive for money. Every thought, every belief, everything we're taught in school.

In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

to one whose elastic and vigorous thoughts keep pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not the labors and attitudes of men, morning is when I am awake and there is dawn in me.

Yo creo que la mente se puede profanar permanentemente con el hábito de escuchar cosas triviales, de modo que todos nuestros pensamientos se teñirán de trivialidad.

Pain was a difficult concept to conjure in memory, Hoop had said. Like tasting the best cake ever. Such thoughts only really meant anything when the tasting-or the pain- was happening.

He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large thoughts into small, cryptic packets of language.

His brain had the bends.

Scripture makes it clear that these responses are not forced upon us by the pressures of the situation. What I do comes from inside me. The things that happen to me will influence my responses but never determine them. Rather, these responses flow out of the thoughts and motives of my heart.

At the city, at the clouds . . . and, in his mind's eye

Beck's three principles of cognitive therapy were: All our emotions are generated by our "cognitions," or thoughts. How we feel at any given moment is due to what we are thinking about. Depression is the constant thinking of negative thoughts. The majority of negative thoughts that cause us emotional turmoil are plain wrong or at least distortions of the truth, but we accept them without question.

most of us can literally "choose" to be happy, if we understand the mind's thought–emotion mechanism.

He was carrying nothing illegal, except for that which was in his head.

And yet society had learned to accept the fact that it wasn't this way for many. This area was so different from his area of operations, and the privileges these kids enjoyed ought not to be privileges at all, for how could a child grow to proper adulthood without an environment like this? Those were dangerous thoughts, Kelly told himself. The logical conclusion was to try to change the whole world, and that was beyond his capacity, he thought

Consciousness returned and when it unpacked its bags, there was suspicion in them.

Was he becoming paranoid? No. At least not when compared to Skeeter Washington, who, admiring the stars one evening on the deck of Poe's boat, was heard to say, If the universe be expanding, they gotta be something chasing it.

Kad u glavi imamo re?enice, mislio sam, još uvek nemamo odlu?nost i da ih stavimo na papir. Re?enice nas plaše, najpre nas plaši misao, onda re?enica, naposletku to što tu re?enicu možda više nemamo u glavi kada ho?emo da je zapišemo. Vrlo ?esto neku re?enicu prerano zapišemo, neku, opet, prekasno; re?enicu moramo da zapišemo u pravom trenutku, ina?e je zauvek izgubljena.