Quotes About Thoughts

Your experience of life is determined by where you focus your attention. If you focus on content, i.e., the thoughts, images, and feelings arising right now, your attention is lost in a world of judging things as good, bad, or neutral—a real roller-coaster ride.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Tout le mal vient de ce que l'on pense, ou plutôt de ce qu'il y a en vous un être qui pense à votre insu puis tout à coup émet dans le silence du cerveau un petite phrase acide, insupportable, après laquelle on ne peut plus vivre comme auparavant

I figure, if the mind just 'has' to be busy, why not make up happy shit?

The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

We want to know what our self is. We are the sky. Our thoughts are the birds that come and go. You can enjoy the birds and their beauty, but it is the sky that lasts.

Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.

Listen to your hunches, pay attention to your intuition, do not dismiss your random thoughts, inspirations or ideas.... They could be giving you the best advice you ever had.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

There is an economy in your mind

Those leaders who fail, lack the capability to resonate their idea & thoughts

Some of the things you believe were never true. They were someone else's fears. Give yourself a chance to examine your thoughts. Change those that are negative. You are deserving.

Labeling our thoughts during meditation practice is a powerful support that reconnects us with the fresh, open, unbiased dimension of our mind.

When we become aware that we are thinking, we say to ourselves, "thinking," with an unbiased attitude and with tremendous gentleness. Then we return our focus to the breath. We regard the thoughts as bubbles and the labeling like touching them with a feather. There's just this light touch—"thinking"—and they dissolve back into the space.

Thoughts will run us around in circles if we buy into them, but really they are like dream images. They are like an illusion—not really all that solid. They are, as we say, just thinking.