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Your Thoughts Quotes

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
- Mark Twain

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.
- J R R Tolkien

my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways from the book of Isaiah
- Mitch Albom

There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that person out of your thoughts. Believe me. I've tried.
- Jodi Picoult

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.
- Christopher Alexander

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
- Elizabeth Gilbert

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. My mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undisciplined. You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
- Elizabeth Gilbert

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you're the slaves to your emotions.
- Elizabeth Gilbert

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.
- Elizabeth Gilbert

Groceries, you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control. Drop everything else but that. Because if you can't learn to master your thinking, you're in deep trouble forever.
- Elizabeth Gilbert

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
- James Allen

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
- James Lane Allen

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Lane Allen

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
- James Lane Allen

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
- Steven Wright

Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.
- Heraclitus

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

What we have here is good and if you'd get over your thoughts that it isn't gonna last, you'd realise how much better it's gonna get if you'd just relax.
- Kristen Ashley

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
- Marcus Aurelius

The universe doesn't give you what you ask for with your thoughts; it gives you what you demand with your actions. In essence, you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE.
- Steve Maraboli

You're life is a print-out of your thoughts.
- Steve Maraboli

Interrupt your thoughts of "I should", with your action of doing.
- Steve Maraboli

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
- Sai Baba

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself.
Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?
- R Scott Bakker

Trust your father. He is not perfect, but he loves you and would never do anything he didn't think was in your best interest. So talk to him. Share your thoughts and feelings, your dreams and your fears. The more he knows about your life, the better chance he has to understand your concerns and to give you good counsel.
- M Russell Ballard

For instance, take the two words "fuming" and "furious." Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will say first. Now open your mouth and speak. If your thoughts incline ever so little towards " fuming," you will say "fuming-furious;" if they turn, by even a hair's breadth, towards "furious," you will say "furious-fuming;" but if you have the rarest of gifts, a perfectly balanced mind, you will say "frumious.
- Lewis Carroll

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
- Isaac Barrow

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
- Alexander Graham Bell

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.
- Dale Carnegie

People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.
- Haruki Murakami

That's all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don't have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out-so far out
you can't follow them all the way to the end.
- Haruki Murakami

Leverage can come in many forms. Leverage can be your thoughts.people who win are careful with their thoughts, not saying "I can't do that." Or "it's too rosky." Or "I can't afford it." Instead they say "How can i do that?" Or how can I reduce my risk?" Or "How can I afford it?
- Robert Kiyosaki

Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.
- William Peter Blatty

For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass: for the which supply, Admit me Chorus to this history; Who prologue-like your humble patience pray, Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.
- William Shakespeare

Make not your thoughts your prisons.
- William Shakespeare

I soend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them....But here you are, trying to remember your own life, writing your thoughts down so that you don't forget. I suddenly realized what it would be like not to know, not to remember.
- Michael Scott

I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them....But here you are, trying to remember your own life, writing your thoughts down so that you don't forget. I suddenly realized what it would be like not to know, not to remember.
- Michael Scott

There is no need to masturbate your brain, just to ejaculate your thoughts all over the place
- Carroll Bryant

Connor bangs his head back sharply against the wall, hoping to jar loose the bad thoughts clinging to his brain. This is not a good place to be alone with your thoughts. Perhaps that's why Hayden feels compelled to talk.
- Neal Shusterman

All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
- Mahatma Gandhi

If I told you that everything about you had been just made up by someone, that all of your thoughts, all of your memories, even the things you chose to say had been invented and that they weren't real, that you weren't real, would you believe me? I don't think so.
- Tony Burgess

Absolutely everything you experience in your life is a result of what you have given in your thoughts and feelings, whether you realize you have given them or not.
- Rhonda Byrne

You are the one who calls the law of attraction into action, and you do it through your thoughts.
- Rhonda Byrne

Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything.
- Rhonda Byrne

Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.
- Rhonda Byrne

Every idea from your thoughts is the real thing it's strength
- Rhonda Byrne

Your power is in your thoughts, so stay awake. In other words, remember to remember.
- Rhonda Byrne

It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.
- Louis C K

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?
- John Cage

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
- George Carlin

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
- Andrew Carnegie

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it.
- Edward Carpenter

Do not rummage through your thought's drawer because you will be ever more disorientated than they are.
- Sorin Cerin

Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.
- Stephen King

Be sincere in your thoughts,
Be pure in your feelings.
You will not have to run after happiness.
Happiness will run after you.
- Sri Chinmoy

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, the pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.
- M Clifford

You can think all you can but don't publicize all your thoughts
- Bernard Kelvin Clive

I urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your thoughts and your feelings. Follow them through and you will grow with them.
- J M Coetzee

I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to him, you are not thinking about the fact that you are talking to him. That is, your thoughts and words all exist on a single, engaged level. You are being yourself because you aren't bothering to think about who you should be. It is like when you talk in a dream.
- David Levithan

Warlord, you once told me I'd always know what you're thinking. What are your thoughts now?"
"Partly, I'm thinking that I might shame myself in my trews, just from the feel of you next to me.
- Kresley Cole

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
- William Congreve

Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.
- Henry David Thoreau

sell your clothes, keep your thoughts
- Henry David Thoreau

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
- Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is, sit on the computer and bleed your thoughts.
- Santosh Kalwar

Why can't you understand that I love you so much, that not being able to touch you hurts? I can't stand the fact that I can't get into your thoughts. Haventon is gone to you, but it's also gone to me. I miss it so much. It feels like my heart's been ripped out from my chest.
- Jordan Deen

There's something nice about the silence of a car ride in the dark, going home. When you were tired of the radio and conversation, and it was okay to just be alone with your thoughts and the road ahead. If you're that comfortable with someone, you don't have to talk.
- Sarah Dessen

You don't have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.
- Doug Dillon

There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions.
- Mike Dooley

As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.
- Ursula K Le Guin

Change your thoughts, Change your world
- Wayne Dyer

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
- Bob Marley

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
- Warren Ellis

Watch your thoughts for they become words.
Watch your words for they become actions.
Watch your actions for they become habits.
Watch your habits for they become your character.
And watch your character for it becomes your destiny.
What we think, we become.
My father always said that... and I think I am fine.
- Margaret Thatcher

Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?'
The Imass shrugged before replying.
'I think of futility, Adjunct.'
'Do all Imass think about futility?'
'No. Few think at all.'
'Why is that?'
The Imass leaned his head to one side and regarded her.
'Because Adjunct, it is futile.
- Steven Erikson

It's very easy to get a boy to leave the room.
It's much harder to get him to leave your thoughts.
- Elizabeth Eulberg

Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.
- Dave Mustaine

I look at you, and I see the most beautiful woman on the face of the earth. Inside and out you are beautiful. I know you better than anyone else could ever know you, because I can see into your thoughts and read your memories. The very light in you, our tremendous capacity for loving, humbles me.
- Christine Feehan

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!
- Jasper Fforde

You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes.
- Gustave Flaubert

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
- Kahlil Gibran

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
- Kahlil Gibran

you talk when u cease to be at peace with your thoughts
- Kahlil Gibran

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.
- Eckhart Tolle

Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never, ever condemned you for your thoughts and desires.
- Michael Grant

Some men there were who know how to look at a lady, and make her feel she'd been seen. Or perhaps there was no question of knowing how. Some men just looked at ladies that way. Tell me what absorbs you so, such a man might say. I wonder at your thoughts. He might even guess. It's to do with cards, isn't it?
- Cecilia Grant

Satellites can see your thoughts, but not through rock,' is like something they might say. In John William's case, it was conscious hyperbole and therefore commentary. At one level, it was reefer-inspired. It was partly for fun. It was other things, too-but not derangement. I give no credence to the interpretation, and I knew him better than anybody.
- David Guterson

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.
- Red Haircrow

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.
- Nhat Hanh

It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.
- Sam Harris

No," she said firmly. "I want you to stay when I go. Break tradition again, my love, and burn me alone in the home we built. I don't want you with me. You aren't done. You see too far ahead. You need to make the world in your thoughts a real one that our children can fly in." - Matalina to Jenks
- Kim Harrison

Slowly, gently night unfurls its splendor. Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender. Turn your face away from the garish light of day, turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light, and listen to the music of the night... Close your eyes and surrender to your darkest dreams, purge your thoughts of the life you knew before. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and live, as you never lived before!
- Charles Hart

Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something triggers your thoughts.
- Lazaro Hernandez

Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.
- Jean Paul Sartre

When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff"-negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past.
- Darren L Johnson

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.
- Raul Julia

it's good for you to write down your thoughts. It's
therapeutic because it forces you to slow down and think about
life.
- Katie Kacvinsky

Don't be selfish and keep your thoughts locked in the cage called your skull. Free your mind, release your thoughts into the world, and free yourself in the process.
- Jarod Kintz

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
- Madame De Stael

Writing
is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time.
The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and
writing some more can help you control issues that you face.
- Guy Kawasaki

What was true and solid begins to slide, dissolve.
Your thoughts unravel faster than a satin ribbon
Whose edge hasn't been burned
Until you sit amidst a tangle of limp, pink threads,
Unable to reason
At all.
- Stasia Ward Kehoe

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
- Beverly Sills

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.
- Elizabeth Kostova

I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orbiting my own mind. And it's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world.
- Anne Lamott

Well, you can't control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it...whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they're doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much you'll let it affect you
- Jennifer Weiner

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
- Sophia Loren

The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, see to it that the Word of God is in you, in your very soul, permeating your thoughts, and so operating upon your outward life, that all may know you to be a true Bible-Christian, for they perceive it in your words and deeds.
- Charles Spurgeon

...penny for your thoughts?" Gabe says as he sits down beside me on the cot, and joins me in watching the girls play. "Just a penny...is that all? With what's on my mind, you could make a fortune." I say as I lay my head on his shoulder. "Well I somehow lost my wallet, but we could use kisses as a substitute. What do you think?
- Amy Lunderman

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
- Lao Tzu

Ghosts have a way of misleading you; they can make your thoughts as heavy as branches after a storm.
- Rebecca Maizel

Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.
- Marianne Williamson

High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
- Yann Martel

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
- Abraham Maslow

The sum of all your thoughts comprises your overall attitude.
- John C Maxwell

What are your thoughts?'
'My thoughts?' I replied, before I even realized what I was saying. 'My thoughts created my world.'
Mac sat up in his seat. He scrunched his curls with his hands, perplexed. 'Who said that?'
I told him the truth.
'Oh, just someone I used to know,' I said, stroking the naked skin on my middle finger.
- Megan Mccafferty

Exchange information, learn to speak sensibly about any subject, learn to express your thoughts, accept new ones, examine them, analyze. Think objectively. Think toward the future.
- Anne Mccaffrey

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
- David O Mckay

It takes time to learn to live in the here and now. You have to hang on past the bad times,... If you do hang on and do not run from your life you discover that you have more control of your thoughts and feelings, and your life, than you believed possible. You learn to quiet your frantic mind, to downgrade your expectations of things and people, find pleasure in solitude, and finally discover who you really are.
- Joan Medlicott

The land which thou goest to possess is not like the land of Egypt from whence thou camest out...For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord...Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near...Why do you spend money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which doth not satisfy you?
- Thomas Merton

He moved closer to her. You did not have to get me anything. The fact that you did means I have been in your thoughts. I am thankful for that.
- Elizabeth Morgan

When you sleep
I will creep
Into your thoughts
Like a bad debt
That you can't pay
Take the easy way
and give in!
- Morrissey

But with you, whenever I'm with you, whenever I'm able to touch you and smell you, hear your voice, your thoughts, I feel like I've never truly known what being blessed was.
- S L Naeole

Let the jerks of the world serve as the perfect example of what you don't want to be. You'll be a heck of a lot happier, and in the long run, there's a chance that other person at work will end up asking what your secret is. Why are you the happy one? In other words, don't let your thoughts think you. Besides, if you're really gonna get pissed, don't waste it on your family, friends, or coworkers, save it for something that really matters.
- Willie Nelson

Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.
- John O Donohue

She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.
- David Nicholls

I know why people die of hopelessness. It comes on like a thick blanket, covering your thoughts, your confidence, creeping into your mind and filling the corners. I lie in the dark, suffocating under horrible dispare, wishing I were dead. I sleep, then wake, then sleep. The sleep is filled with monstrous dreams that attack, cry out, and vanish, leaving me once more awake and staring into the darkness. Help me! My mind is screaming, but there is no one to hear.
- Joan Lowery Nixon

Your thoughts about your circumstances have you down. On the other hand, you can be in one of the biggest battles of your life, and still be filled with joy and peace and victory - if you simply learn how to choose the right thought. It's time to think about what you're thinking about.
- Joel Osteen

let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered. One may be a free man and yet be bound tighter than a slave. Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not
- Christopher Paolini

First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered..
- Christopher Paolini

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Think well.
- Danielle Pierre

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
- Peace Pilgrim

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.
- Peace Pilgrim

Suffering is one of the greatest spiritual teachers of humanity. Even though none of us really ever welcomes it...having had enough of it in your life, will cause you to surrender and control your thoughts. It will usually lead you through the doors of spiritual journey in your life.Once you go through these doors of enlightenment...you will never be the same.
- Timothy Pina

You can be in control of your life...if you really want to be! Change your thoughts...keep them clean & happy and then you will Change your life
- Timothy Pina

...when you start to feel like you are better than someone else, you should probably stick your head in a toilet because at that moment your thoughts are crap.
- Ellen Potter

A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves on the surface of an ocean. What is the difference between the information carried in the words of a novel and the information carried on the waves of the sea? Listen, and the waves will speak, and someday, I tell you, you will write your thoughts on the surface of the sea.
- Douglas Preston

You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better.
- Dennis Quaid

You can lose yourself in repetitionquiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.
- Matthew Quick

Echo of your thoughts are more important than your actions because that has greater impact on the world.
- Amit Ray

The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.
- Charles Reznikoff

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.
- John Buchanan Robinson

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.
- John Buchanan Robinson

I'd rather face mythological creatures or prarnormal beings then to deal with my own demons. Nothing's scarier than being alone with your thoughts.Fuck the bump in the night BS, it's the silence that does it for me.
- Amanda Rose

It's really a whole new feeling when you realize you're in charge of your life, your thoughts, and your actionsor inaction.
- Kaira Rouda

Look past your thoughts, so you may
drink the pure nectar of This Moment.
- Rumi

Put your thoughts to sleep,
do not let them cast a shadow
over the moon of your heart.
Let go of thinking.
- Rumi

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
- Olive Schreiner

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
- David Seabury

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don't move until you've reached page fifty. Until you've buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.
- Carol Shields

I realized a long time ago, with a certain amazement, that no mattter how important something is in your life, no matter how huge it is, how much space it takes up in your heart and in your thoughts, unless you mention it to other people, they have no idea it exists.
- Sharon Shinn

You have to store up books, becoming acquainted with human experience; let them lie around your thoughts, becoming yoursring upon ring, as a tree grows, let them rise up from the depths like coral islands.
If it gets crowded with all the books and there's nowhere to put your bed, it's better to exchange it for a folding bed
- Viktor Shklovsky

There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech...
- Dan Stevens

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
- W Clement Stone

Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I've learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think I'm the only one that does that...
- Taylor Swift

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.
- Johannes Tauler

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

I want you, Delilah Anne. Never doubt that. I want a life with you. With your voice and your touch and your thoughts and your arguments. I want your grace and your mistakes and your promises and your everything, all twisted up with mine. I want it so bad that I feel like I can't breathe whenever I think about being without you.
- Dee Tenorio

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
- Brian Tracy

A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. "Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and a fake?" And the master of the good name said, "When you meet a person who poses as a master, ask him a question: whether he knows how to purify your thoughts. If he says that he knows, then he is a fake.
- Elie Wiesel

Pause for a moment and check where your own heart and thoughts are. Are you focused on the things that matter most? How you spend your quiet time may provide a valuable clue. Where do your thoughts go when the pressure of deadlines is gone? Are your thoughts and heart focused on those short-lived fleeting things that matter only in the moment or on things that matter most?
- Dieter F Uchtdorf

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
- Morihei Ueshiba

It used to be on the Internet no one knew you were a dog. Now not only does
everyone know that you are a dog, they know what kind of a dog you are, who
you run with, where you hide your bones, the accidental piddle behind the
couch, the fight you got into with the boxer, and your thoughts on the hot
poodle down the street.
- Nancy Willard

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance,
Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance
You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.
- Saul Williams

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.
- Frederick Wiseman

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.
- Loretta Young

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