Thought Quotes

Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. This hasn’t ever worked, because it approaches the problem backward. What The Work gives us is a way to change the projector—mind—rather than the projected. It’s like when there’s a piece of lint on a projector’s lens. We think there’s a flaw on the screen, and we try to change this person and that person, whomever the flaw appears on next. But it’s futile to try to change the projected images. Once we realize where the lint is, we can clear the lens itself. This is the end of suffering, and the beginning of a little joy in paradise.

~ Byron Katie

Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.

~ Emmanuel Mounier

Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

~ George Orwell

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass.

~ James Allen

Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.

~ Suzy Kassem

Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.

~ Paul Brunton

What you envision for the future, out of fear or out of joy, will become reality as the sands of time carve those paths of thought into your mind and soul.

~ Jason T. Rogers

i love good cries,loud sobs that soak your pillowthat kind that come at the endof a perfect bookyou're gasping for airas droplets of salt water trickle down your cheeksinto the corners of your mouthas your chest rises and fallsand your vision is blurredby the tearsbut your mind is so clear and your every thoughtin that moment feels so meaningfuland important and rightit feels okay to justlet it all outit makes you feel likeyou are free

~ Madisen Kuhn

Only man’s misdirected abstract mind can delude its own desire to know by creating contradicting belief systems using self-contradicting myths, and then make itself believe that these “revealed” belief systems are in fact the only “truths”, Then kill and die FOR them, Instead of saving each other FROM them.

~ Haroutioun Bochnakian

We are not bound by time. But there are things we cannot speak of because the repercussions of particular thoughts can break lives.

~ F.k. Preston

Inside the human mind, an idea is a mental spark that occurs as a response to the challenge of a train of thought.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Something clicked inside Ortez mind, like the bolt of a door latch being released. Man’s first encounter with sentient alien life was a disaster called the Gimp War in the history books. The aliens simply began an all out onslaught without any warning. Fortunately the Human race proved a little more difficult to dispose of than the aliens thought. The Gimp, or Ruminarii as they were called, were driven off and hadn’t been heard from since. Their origins were still a mystery. This was not a Ruminarii ship, but this encounter might have similar repercussions. And Commander Dayne Ortez aged 26, realized the meaning of this.

~ Christina Engela

Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.

~ Raheel Farooq

I have come to the realization that I have reached the age or mental state of the entering a room with thought in mind syndrome only to find the thought took a turn and went elsewhere...fortunately it wasn't a life or death issue... Sept 24, 2016... — thinking about life

~ Kjforce

When we imagine ourselves to be in a state of mind, no matter what, we are in that state of mind, and thus in that state of illness which we imagine ourselves to be in, in every state that we imagine ourselves in.

~ Thomas Bernhard

The word is like a seed, and the human mind is so fertile, but only for those kinds of seeds it is prepared for.

~ Miguel Ruiz

Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.

~ Blaise Pascal

Quiet the mind’s constant chatter of uncontrolled thoughts.

~ Steven Redhead

To achieve something, action is needed; but thoughtful and calculated action is better.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

My mind is like clay, but thank goodness God knows how to mold it!

~ Mary Kate

The Hand (Kara-Te) is the cutting edge of the Mind

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

The thought cross his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wouldn't be in such a fix. But he felt little fear; just an overpowering fatigue. Life had slipped out of line. It was unfair, it was too bad, but he couldn't find the energy to fight it any longer.

~ Larry Mcmurtry

The word of God renewed my mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.

~ Criss Jami

Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time.

~ Theodore Dalrymple

The earth is a mosaic, and most fail to notice the gossamer tesserae floating down from the realm of the mind that form its images of beauty and horror.

~ Lawren Leo

How do text messages make you feel existential?I start thinking about exactly that: how people can edit a thought before sending it out to the world. They can make themselves seem more well spoken than they are, or funnier, smarter. I start thinking that no one in the world is who they say the are, then my mind goes to how I also edit myself, not just online but in real life, except for those rare instances like right now where I'm ranting- even though that's a lie because I've had this train of thought before and damned if I didn't tweak it in my head a few times to make it sound better- and then my mind starts racing so furiously I can't control my thoughts, and I start thinking about robots and wondering if I'm even a real person.

~ Adi Alsaid

The mind is the laboratory where products, both fake and genuine are manufactured. People grow wild weeds, others grow flourishing flowers!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The brain is the coast of many great monuments. Your ability to exploit the power of your brain is what makes you a leader. Leadership emerges from a positive mindset!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Great battles that prevail in actions had been won or lost earlier in thoughts. When the mind resists change, it’s in vain the legs chase it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In the journey of life, you can only be as fruitful or fruitless as the thoughts that constantly dwell in your mind.

~ Hafiz

Opportunities can become obstacles, same way obstacles can become opportunities; it all depends on how they are being interpreted by the mind of a person.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I wonder about people who say they haven't time to think. For myself, I can double think. I find that weighing vegetables, passing the time of day with customers, fighting or loving Mary, coping with the children-- none of these prevents a second and continuing layer of thinking, wondering, conjecturing. Surely this must be true of everyone. Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.

~ John Steinbeck

Self-reflection or autognosis reveals that what is given in consciousness is, first and foremost, integral connectedness and organic unity of all thinking, feeling, and desiring. At the same time, self-reflection reveals that this connected unity is the ultimate reality that can be reached. Consciousness cannot go behind itself. Whatever we propose to think forms part of this organic unity of our mind and is a result or consequence of it. There is no means of jumping beyond consciousness, and any attempt to explain with the help of any other imaginary system the radical connectedness in which we live and that is our mind would be absurd. Our mind is the very presupposition of all explanation. For to explain a phenomenon means, in the last instance, to point out its place and its part within the living economy of consciousness, and to determine the meaning it has in the original source of all meaning: life.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

Man’s mind is a coast of great monuments, the source of wild and complex dreams and accomplishments that physical eyes have not seen.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You are deluded if you think that the world around you is a physical construct separate from your own mind.

~ Kevin Michel

More than ninety-five percent of your brain activity, as you consciously read this sentence, is being used by your subconscious mind.

~ Kevin Michel

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

~ A.j. Darkholme

You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.

~ Criss Jami