Quotes About Thoughts

Choose your words carefully, even the words you think, because they become seeds, and seeds become history.

The thought weaves into her unexpectedly, as so many thoughts do, time again. How do you make the remembering stop?

Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.

I looked at her, unsure how to answer. Even after everything Mikael had done, every day I had to let go again. He was a habit in my thoughts, not any more welcome than a rash, but I'd find myself thinking of him before I even realized what I was doing. Banishing him from my thoughts was like learning to breathe in a new way. It was a conscious effort.

I looked at her face, gently illuminated by the distant light of the tavern. Even with her brows pulled low and an anguished crease between them, she was beautiful. It was a strange thing to think at the moment. I had deliberately avoided the thought each time I had looked at her before. I couldn't afford such thoughts, but now the word came, unbidden, unrelenting. I

Desperation grew teeth. Claws. It became an animal inside me that knew no bounds, unspeakable, just as Jafir had tried to explain to me so long ago. It tore open my darkest thoughts, letting them unfurl like black wings.

where did those words go, words that where once in my head?

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth

Few novelists can be more scrupulous than Jane Austen as to the phrasing of the thoughts of their characters.

He could travel in his mind, though. He did it all the time.

One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic than the murder done.

I learned a long time ago that if I really wanted to bring my ideas into experience, I needed to write down my intentions. When you put pen to paper, you have little choice but to get specific. The actual process of forming your thoughts into words on a page is a creative act, a genesis, moving energy toward the very thing you want to experience.

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love.

Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.

Hephaistion was thinking how fragile his rib cage seemed, how terrible were the warring desires to cherish and to crush it.

when we hold positive thoughts, it changes our behavior. We are more open, tolerant, and creative, and as a result we smile more, give more information, and are more patient.

I am mad. The thought calms me. I don't have to try to be sane anymore. It's over. I sleep

An insight is a fleeting glimpse of the brain's huge store58 of unknown knowledge. The cortex is sharing one of its secrets. —Jonah Lehrer

I worry that we are even closer to the stripping away of complex thoughts when they do not fit the memory-enfeebling restriction on the number of characters used to convey them.

us," she thought, "or at least some bits of cheddar

If you wish to liberate the spiritual energy that resides in the heart and body, so that you can live in a free and joyous way at all times, you must reject thoughts that tie down your heart—such as dark depression, anger, fear, and anxiety. To let spiritual energy grow in your heart and let it manifest its power fully, you constantly need thoughts of gratitude, admiration, and cheerfulness.

What you think about day and night forms your character and personality. When walking on the street, we sometimes encounter a person of striking spiritual beauty. It's as if the noble thoughts they think every day are spontaneously conveyed to us. The way you think determines exactly what you become.

Atmosphere is created by a person's daily thoughts. The person who always continues to have cheerful and constructive thoughts creates a warm, comfortable atmosphere that other people enjoy being near. You must become a person who radiates this kind of atmosphere.