Quotes About Thoughts

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

The secret is to fill your mind with thoughts of faith, confidence, and security. This will force out or expel all thoughts of doubt, all lack of confidence. To one man who for a long time had been haunted by insecurities and fears I suggested that he read through the Bible underlining in red pencil every statement it contains relative to courage and confidence. He also committed them to memory, in effect cramming his mind full of the healthiest, happiest, most powerful thoughts in the world.

2. Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal powers comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

Every day flush lack thoughts out of your mind and refill with dynamic thoughts of abundance. Expect generous benefits in never failing supply.

The words we speak have a direct and definite effect upon our thoughts. Thoughts create words, for words are the vehicles of ideas. But words also affect thoughts and help to condition if not to create attitudes. In fact, what often passes for thinking starts with talk.

When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world

It is a fact that negative thought will attract negative thought, and positive thought will attract positive thought.

If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure.

Worry is a habit. It got into your mind because you practiced it, and anything you practice in, you can practice out.

like a mountain path that ends at a cliff I travel along the edge of your thoughts, and my shadow falls from your white forehead, my shadow shatters, and I gather the pieces and go with no body, groping my way

o love is to battle, if two kiss the world changes, desires take flesh thoughts take flesh, wings sprout on the backs of the slave, the world is real and tangible, wine is wine, bread regains its savor, water is water, to love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see Piedra de Sol (The Sun Stone), translated by Eliot Weinberger

Unos lloran con lágrimas; otros con pensamientos

In the tide of these wild thoughts we checked our fancy, remembering that only on the rare grains called planets can life gain foothold, and that all this wealth of restless jewels was but a waste of fire.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become—as a woman thinks, so she is. If we absorb hour upon hour of images and messages that don't reflect our magnificence, it's no wonder we walk around feeling drained of our life force. If we tune in to dozens of acts of brutality every week, it shouldn't surprise us that our children see violence as an acceptable way to resolve conflict.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is what we become.

Maya Angelou once passed on to me: "I'm convinced that the negative has power—and if you allow it to perch in your house, in your mind, in your life, it can take you over," she said. "Those negative words climb into the woodwork, into the furniture, and the next thing you know, they're on your skin. A negative statement is poison.

Ä°nsan hepsini ayn? anda düÅŸünemiyor ama görebiliyordu. Akl?mdaki kelimelerin, akl?mdaki hayallere yetiÅŸememesi gibi bir ÅŸeydi bu. Kelimeler duygular?ma yetiÅŸemiyor ve yetersiz kal?yorlard?.

There were some thoughts—such as a memory of running under the pouring rain, and how it felt—that I couldn't even begin to put into words…Yet their image was clear in my mind.

so the knowledge of their presence remained, for the time being, strictly within the bounds of people's private thoughts, lying dormant in a corner of their minds like a secret language spoken only at home.

K?rm?z? Saçl? Kad?n'?n arada akl?ma geldiÄŸini deÄŸil Ali'den,asl?nda kendimden bile saklamak istiyordum.

Bir yandan bunu hissediyor,diÄŸer yandan içimden geçenlerin hepsinin boÅŸ birer hayal olduÄŸunu düÅŸünüyordum.

just pop this one out, too