Quotes About Thoughts

A SIDE EFFECT OF depression is sometimes to become obsessed with the functioning of your brain.

I am petrified of where my mind can go, because I know where it has already been.

Is there no way out of the mind?" Sylvia Plath

As a child I used to worry about death a lot. Certainly more than a child should.

We can think about anything. And so it makes sense that we end up sometimes thinking about everything. We might have to, sometimes, be brave enough to switch the screens off in order to switch ourselves back on. To disconnect in order to reconnect.

I am a catastrophizer. I don't simply worry. No. My worry has real ambition. My worry is limitless. My anxiety—even when I don't have capital-A Anxiety—is big enough to go anywhere. I have always found it easy to think of the worst-case scenario and dwell on it.

They live in your mind, the way they always lived inside

You are not your back but you are your thoughts. If your back hurts it might hurt more by sitting down. If your mind hurts it hurts by thinking. And you feel there is no real, easy equivalent of standing back up. Though often this feeling itself is a lie.

It seems that you have spent all your life saying things that you aren't really thinking. This is one of your barriers.

We can move against the current of life, and forever meet resistance, or we can let our thoughts flow, and become the free uncertain river.

The thought was like a ceaseless mind-cramp, something too uncomfortable to bear yet too strong to avoid.

Ik ben verlamd van angst voor de dwaalwegen van mijn geest, want ik weet waar hij allemaal al is geweest.

Wat tegenwoordig sneller gaat dan vroeger: Berichten. Auto's. Olympische sprinters. Nieuws. Rekensnelheid. Foto's. Geld overboeken. Reizen. Groei van de wereldbevolking. Ontbossing van het Amazonewoud. Navigatie. Technologische vooruitgang. Relaties. Politieke incidenten. Je gedachten.

if you speak to yourself people think you are mad but if you write the same things they think you are clever.

I told him that I had been under a lot of pressure at work and he understood. He then asked me some more questions. But as with all human questions, the answers were always there, inside them like protons inside an atom, for me to locate and give as my own independent thoughts.

Our mind might make prisons, but it also gives us keys.

Her mind felt different here. She thought a lot in this life, but her thoughts were gentle.

The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there but no one else can see them.

I'd had another disturbed night as I walked up and down the corridors of my mind, a mêlée of thoughts spinning on discordant cerebral hamster-wheels as they conspired to keep my brain alert but unproductive.

Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny.

Positive thinking needs to be a daily practice. It will not happen overnight, but rather it needs to be a conscious effort of being aware of your thoughts and statements to determine if they are coming from a negative or a positive place. Being consciously aware of your thoughts is the first step before it can enter the unconscious mind and become a habit.

Visualize and re-experience it completely in your mind.

Even in his books, where he's allegedly trying to string multiple thoughts together, Trump wanders randomly from impulse to impulse, seemingly without rhyme or reason. He doesn't think anything through. (He's brilliantly cast this driving-blind trait as "not being politically correct.") It

I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.