Thought Quotes

It’s not possible to move from one activity to the next at blinding speed and be reflective at the same time. The more complex and demanding the work we do, the wider, deeper and longer the perspective we require to do it well. It’s almost impossible to do that when we create no white space in our lives.

~ Tony Schwartz

True wit is nature to advantage dressed;What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

~ Alexander Pope

I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human actions and appetites just as if it were a Question of lines, planes, and bodies.

~ Baruch Spinoza

The afternoon had passed to a ghostly gray. She was struck by the immensity of things, so much water and sky and forest, and after a time it occurred to her that she’d lived a life almost entirely indoors. Her memories were indoor memories, fixed by ceilings and plastered white walls. Her whole life had been locked to geometries: suburban rectangles, city squares. First the house she’d grown up in, then dorms and apartments. The open air had been nothing but a medium of transit, a place for rooms to exist.

~ Tim O'brien

If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.

~ Criss Jami

Always ask yourself: What will happen if I say nothing?

~ Kamand Kojouri

If perception is limited by experience, knowledge, and/or education, what deems my actions “correct” or my thoughts as moral?

~ Kierra C.t. Banks

Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.

~ Rodman Philbrick

Why do I make room in my mind for such filth and nonsense? Do I hope that if feeling disguises itself as thought I shall feel less? Aren't all these notes the senseless writhings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it? Who still thinks there is some device (if only he could find it) which will make pain not to be pain. It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.

~ C.s. Lewis

There are infinite ways for your mind to torture it's self.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

until it is taken out of your mind, it is never lost and it is never gone

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Follow your heart. It will lead you to where you need to be.

~ Avis J. Williams

The difficulties and challenges in your life are the lessons you need to learn to grow and development.

~ Avis J. Williams

Failures and mistakes are lessons to be learned from. They are opportunities for growth.

~ Avis J. Williams

We are all teachers, we all have knowledge and experiences that can teach others.

~ Avis J. Williams

Your past karma is what you found difficult or challenging in this life. To heal your past karma you would need to learn your life lessons for this life.

~ Avis J. Williams

Watch out, every day miraculous encounter with you and God!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have been thinking about what might happen if they installed clappers to turn on and off the lights in a concert hall. Maybe they could spare the cost of hiring some people for the next rock concert.

~ Linnea Gelland

She shakily rushed towards the car to find Alecto casually standing beside it, smoking a cigarette and staring fixedly on the radio as it played the song 'Draggin’ the Line' by Tommy James, his expression thoughtful. “What are you thinking about?” Mandy questioned.“Wouldn’t the world be a very loud place to live if we said everything we thought?” Alecto asked quietly.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Be careful of what you assume, what you assume often becomes what you consume

~ Constance Friday

Be careful of what you assume, what you assume will become what you consume

~ Constance Friday

for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space and time.

~ Stefan Grabiński

Awareness is our true self; it’s what we are. So we don’t have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness, with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We’re either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we’re doing something else. The mark of mature students is that most of the time, they don’t do something else. They’re just here, living their life. Nothing special.

~ Charlotte Joko Beck

Wall your life, guard your heart and mind your mind! A life without a wall least blocks something! A mind without a wall accepts anything at all!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There is greatness in you, dare to do something! There is an opposition you face, dare to overcome every obstacle! No one has ever blaze a trail without overcoming challenges. No one has ever been a champion without a competition. No matter how your present sees you, how you see your present is what matters. The matter doesn’t matter; how you see the matter is what matters!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

come on, you shouldn't continue to disturb your mind with everything. Avoid thinking about anything at all, leave something, keep something and think about something!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Mind and man what is in today and make today the solid foundation for tomorrow. Focus on what tomorrow brings ans let yesterday be yesterday. If there are lessons to learn from yesterday, don’t neglect them and don’t be crippled by the negativity of yesterday; Only use them as the best panacea and antidote to the ‘had I knows’ of tomorrow you are yet to meet!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You left yesterday hoping to see tomorrow and you shall surely see today so far us you have life. Mind and man what is in today and make today the solid foundation for tomorrow. Focus on what tomorrow brings and let yesterday be yesterday. If there are lessons to learn from yesterday, don’t neglect them and don’t be crippled by the negativity of yesterday; only use them as the best panacea and antidote to the ‘had I knows’ of tomorrow you are yet to meet!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You shall only continue to feel bitter when you continue to make your mind the door step for footprints of bitterness! When you mind your mind, you mind your mind, you mind your heart, you mind your body and you mind your spirit! The only rest stop in your body for bitterness is your mind. Don’t forget! mind your mind!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You shall only continue to feel bitter when you continue to make your mind the doorstep for footprints of bitterness! When you mind your mind, you mind your mind, you mind your heart, you mind your body and you mind your spirit! The only rest stop in your body for bitterness is your mind. Don’t forget! Mind your mind!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Until you learn how to confidently say NO to so many things, you shall always say YES to so many things. The real summary of a regretful life is a life that failed to balance YES and NO. Yes! A life that failed to recognize when to courageously say NO and when to confidently say YES!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Suppose that we could close our eyes today and see the real certainties and uncertainties of tomorrow, we would have never wished to open our eyes again for the real certainties and uncertainties of tomorrow never ends!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Thought for the day: we have far too many of them. And we prize them too highly; more so than we do the power of silence, mindfulness and pure kindness.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

sometimes in your works, give people the opportunity to express their ignorance; then you prove the wrong with your works.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The writer identifies the thought behind every written word.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The mind is a magnetic field. When it a attract good thoughts, it will produce good deeds.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May our conscience be renewed by the WORD of GOD.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our reaction to any situation will determine the outcome.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Despite their depressing circumstances, the Hernandez family had a certain dignity and strength about them. They were Christians, and they taught their children that God loved them and had a plan for their lives. Their little boy, David, internalized that message of hope. He never thought of himself as a victim even though he had every reason to feel cheated. His family was at the bottom of the social ladder without even a house to live in, but his worth as an individual was rooted in his faith.

~ James C. Dobson

Live to learn to love. Learn to love to live. Love to live to learn so that you may live the life that you yearn.

~ Rico Dasheem