Quotes About Thoughts

Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.

I thought of women in other places, streets and boulevards in major cities, wind blowing, a woman's skirt lifting in the breeze, the way the wind tenses the skirt, giving shape to the legs, making the skirt dip between the legs, revealing knees and thighs. Were these my father's thoughts or mine?

If we isolate the stray thought, the passing thought, he said, the thought whose origin is unfathomable, then we begin to understand that we are routinely deranged, everyday crazy.

In the dark the mind runs on like a devouring machine, the only thing awake in the universe.

She used to say to him, If people knew what I was thinking they would put me away forever. But they would put us all away, he said. They have put us away. we are put away for our thoughts, one way or another. We have put ourselves away, he said.

You don't think of the tape as boring or interesting. It is crude, it is blunt, it is relentless. It is the jostled part of your mind, the film that runs through your hotel brain under all the thoughts you know you're thinking.

In time I let my head ease back on the top step and I closed my eyes. I was moving into the biblical phase of the afternoon, the peak of my new simplicity. A verity less than eternal had little appeal. I prepared myself to think of night, desert, sorrowful forests, of the moon, the stars, the west wind, baptismal mist and the rich myrrh of harvested earth. Instead I thought of tits.

I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love.

The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!

No one is responsible for your emotional reactions except you. Others can say and do anything they like but what happens inside you is only the result of what you are thinking and feeling.

The mind carries you with it, away from what you are supposed to do, toward things that cannot be explained rationally, toward difficulty, lack of clarity, late-afternoon light.

He realized how primitive this feeling was but, as a friend of his father had often said, he had only one head, so he had only one way to think about things.

When you're worried about something,' said Henry abruptly, 'have you ever tried thinking in a different language?

But I am getting sentimental. Sometimes, when I think about these things, I do.

a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence.

the mind is its own place and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell and so forth

Over and over I played her favorite Arvo Pärt, as a way of being with her; and she had only to mention recently read novel for me to grab it up hungrily, to be inside her thoughts, a sort of telepathy

You know,' said Francis, on the way out, 'I once made the mistake of asking Bunny if he ever thought about Sin.' 'What did he say?' asked Camilla. Francis snorted. 'He said No, of course not. I'm not a Catholic.

L'esprit est son propre lieu et peut faire en lui-même un Paradis de l'Enfer et ainsi de suite

The chronological sorting of memories is an interesting business

The human mind, I take it, must have either comfort in the past or hope in the future," he continued, "otherwise it is in danger.

Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

Pero todavía no he visto que haya algún pasaje en las Escrituras que enseñe que puede lograrse una perfección literal, una liberación completa y absoluta del pecado, ni en los pensamientos, ni palabras ni hechos, ni tampoco que ningún hijo de Adán lo haya logrado en este mundo.

Even more exciting is learning that to create the future of your dreams, you need only change your thoughts and vibrations from this day forward.