Quotes About Thoughts

Silence is the parent of wise thoughts, — the mark of a well composed mind.

Sleeplessness comes when our thoughts outweigh the night.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are.

Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.

The "greatest" commandment teaches us to love the Lord our God with all our minds, too (Matt. 22:37) – to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ (2 Cor. 10:5).

The condition of your soul will determine the condition of your life. Because it determines how you think, what you feel, and what you choose to do.

What you focus on and the way you think will determine the way you live.

what we focus on shapes the soul—the mind, the will, the emotions.

Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.

Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything.

At the end of the day, developing goodness comes down to a simple question: Will this emotion, thought or action, increase or decrease my capacity for goodness?

The pre-rational view of spirituality is irrational because it is based on pre-rational worldviews, such as the magical, the belief that individual thoughts and actions directly influence the outside world ("If I dance, it will rain"); and the mythical, which is belief in unverified dogma, a worldview that usually includes a belief in an external power that can be asked to change outcomes ("If I pray to Jesus, he will intervene in my life").

Forgiveness is probably the most important self-esteem building process anyone can undertake. Forgiveness is an internal response to the fact that we cannot, under any circumstances, change the past. The only things we can change are our thoughts about the past. Forgiveness happens when we stop wishing for a better past and understand that we are carrying hatred, anger and resentment within us.

Regretful and negative thoughts about the past can effectively induce the same kind of fight or flight response that external threats stimulate.

My dreaming thoughts go barefoot in the evening.

Patiti, voleti, biti sre?an, nesre?an: sve se dešavalo unutra, u misteriji našeg mozga, medu milijardama neurona. Želja, se?anje, strah, agresivnost, misao, san, zavisili su delom od lu?enja razli?itih hemijskih supstanci, neurotransmitera, zaduženih za prenos poruka od jednog do drugog neurona.

have a kink as solid and full of habit as the ones in the hose. Slowly I pull out the full length of the hose and lay it where it needs to be before I turn on the water. Inside, too, I must unroll my full attention. Old habits of thought twist themselves into kinks and knots. We will be forced to acknowledge this again and again.

necesito descansar; necesito, del mismo modo que se sangra el cuerpo por cuyas henchidas venas se precipita la sangre con pletórico empuje, desahogar el cerebro, insuficiente a contener tantos absurdos.

era poeta, tanto que nunca le habían satisfecho las formas en que pudiera encerrar sus pensamientos, y nunca los había encerrado al escribirlos.

Paseando por entre la indiferente multitud esta silenciosa tempestad de mi cabeza.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!