Thoughts Quotes

They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?

~ Amy Jenkins

Do not share your thoughts with people who think that what you are thinking is not worth thinking.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway

~ John Green

Positive thoughts lead to positive results.

~ Maria V. Snyder

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

~ Charles Dickens

He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.

~ Sarah Dessen

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

~ Janet Fitch

To understand the truth of everything,it took guts more than simply thinking.

~ Toba Beta

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

~ Susan Sontag

Remember that your dominating thoughts attract, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what your thoughts dwell upon.

~ Napoleon Hill

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

~ Germaine De Staël

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.

~ Washington Irving

Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.

~ A.j. Jacobs

Trippers and askers surround me,People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward andcity I live in, or the nation,The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors oldand new,My dinner, dress, associates, looks, compliments, dues,The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,The sickness of one of my folks or of myself, or ill-doing or lossor lack of money, or depressions or exaltations,Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news,the fitful events;These come to me days and nights and go from me again,But they are not the Me myself.Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary,Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next,Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it.Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog withlinguists and contenders,I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait.

~ Walt Whitman

It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.

~ Walter De La Mare

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

~ Jim Crace

Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours.

~ Alain De Botton

Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.

~ Mark Z. Danielewski

...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.

~ Terry Goodkind

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

~ Napoleon Hill

Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person.We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence.

~ Terry Goodkind

...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.

~ Sophie Kinsella

Life is too hard, too much to handle. Nobody told me there’d be days like these. How could nobody tell me there’d be days like these? How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?

~ Karen Marie Moning

You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.

~ Marianne Wiggins

The world follows its own course. Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path. So it is with your mother, and so it is with your starling. As it is with everyone. The world follows its own course.

~ Haruki Murakami

One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

Choose thoughts that give you the emotions of being alive and excited about life.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers.

~ Villiers De L'isle-Adam

You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.

~ Emily Saliers

So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously, What overwhelms people when they are about to leaves friends, family, old haunts and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts.

~ Epictetus

A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.

~ Phoebe Stone

If only [there] really was a door and [you] could walk through it into another life, where threads didn't snarl and stitches didn't go all tight and tiny. Where people loved you and didn't leave you for someone else.

~ Karen Hancock

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sometimes when you had a thought, it refused to leave. You rejected it, disowned it, sent it away, to find, moments later, that you were still spending time with it. It might have a different shape or use different words, but there was no mistaking: it was the same one.

~ Cecilia Ekbäck

thoughts are cheap and they don't hurt anybody

~ Martha Brooks

Successful people don't have a limit whereas unsuccessful people often draw a line of limit

~ Santosh Avvannavar

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Most of my beholders are blind.

~ Basith

The surveillance, he thought, essentially should be maintained. And, if possible, by me. I should always be watching, watching and figuring out, even if I never do anything about what I see; even if I just sit there and observe silently, not seen: that is important, that I as a watcher of all that happens should be at my place.

~ Philip K. Dick

Probably nothing, but it was one of those thoughts like toothpaste: Once it’s out, you can’t squeeze it back in.

~ Kate Brady