Thoughts Quotes

We mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.

~ Irene Hunt

She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were her own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and they they concerned no one but herself.

~ Kate Chopin

I have been known to think outside of all rules. Even my own.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.

~ Richard M. Weaver

You have the choice of deliberately directing your thinking, or allowing other forces to dictate your desires and attitudes.

~ Grant Von Harrison

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, undermined, then gone.

~ Abigail Tarttelin

Beauvoir left their home wanting to call his wife and tell her how much he loved her, and then tell her what he believed in, and his fears and hopes and disappointments. To talk about something real and meaningful. He dialed his cell phone and got her. But the words got caught somewhere south of his throat. Instead he told her the weather had cleared, and she told him about the movie she'd rented. Then they both hung up.

~ Louise Penny

My job is not to worry about what everyone else thinks about me but to discover what I think. If I actually want to know what someone else thinks, my job is then to ask that person. More often than not, however, it isn’t important to know. It’s okay if people are mad at me, and it’s okay if people think I’m a complete idiot—as long as I’m doing my best. Just because certain people might have judgments about me, it does not mean they have authority over me. To truly form my own life, I had to ask questions like ‘What are my needs? And ‘What are my thoughts?’ I had to acknowledge both my strengths and my weaknesses. I had to form my own opinions based on my reality instead of someone else’s.

~ Jenni Schaefer

Thoughts, quotes, and philosophies—good or bad—cause us to evaluate ourselves. And that is good.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state.Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little.Feeling is frightening.

~ Jeanette Winterson

As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.

~ Tara Brach

Our thoughts are just a story our mind tell us.

~ Romina Avila

How do I tell her that all I want to do is roll around on my bed?

~ Jolene Perry

Why do I go outside at one a.m.and search the stars as though I'd numbered them?

~ Gail White

Well they have to have something to wean Caluntians off Venusian moles. Seems humans are the best therapy, to consume that is. They say we are a bit gamey though. An acquired taste, one we hope not many acquire.

~ Neil Leckman

It's dangerous because my thoughts get away from themselves. Mixed with emotion, they pile up like the garbage that surrounds me. They stack layer upon layer, deeper and deeper, month after month- crushing, festering, smoldering. One day something is certain to combust.

~ Camron Wright

Dale, a Plutonian Dreg Bug, the kind with seventeen eyes and a bad temper, got nailed in one of his eyes by a wild dart. Fight broke out when he punched Earl in the nose. Earl’s nose is very sensitive, hell it’s how he sees, sort of. Earl plopped down on the floor crying when a Flying Mugwhap flew over and ate Dale’s eye. Dale grabbed the Mugwhap and squeezed a good deal of the life out of it before the bouncer stopped him. Karen, the bouncer, is a reticulated Hive Mother, and a mean mother when she’s pissed off. She walked over and flicked Dale upside his head. That flick knocked Dale out cold, and cost him two more eyes when he hit the wall. She helped Earl up and bought him a drink. A nasty drink by all the comments I’ve heard. Something between varnish and the stuff people get in the corners of their mouths with a nice aftertaste of silver polish. Earl seemed to like it though.

~ Neil Leckman

There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.

~ Kami Garcia

Once the rain starts falling it's hard to tell it to stop...

~ Samantha Young

Why was it that thoughts and plans always made more sense when confined to one's mind than when they exited one's mouth?

~ Karen Witemeyer

One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The minute you say, My memory isn't what it used to be ... you are actually training your brain to live up to your diminished expectations.Low expectations mean low results.The first rule of super brain is that your brain is always eavesdropping on your thoughts. As it listens, it leans. If you teach it about limitation, your brain will become limited. But what if you do the opposite? What if you teach your brain to be unlimited?

~ Deepak Chopra

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

~ Edith Hamilton

I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall.

~ Rebecca Donovan

Do you think peace of mind can be found in holding a grudge… or harboring resentment… or wallowing in thoughts of what could have been? Me neither.

~ Steve Maraboli

Do all people have that? A face, a phrase, a landscape, an air bubble from the past suddenly floating up as if released by the head warden's child from a cell in the brain while the mind is at work on some totally different matter? Something of the sort also occurs just before falling asleep when what you think you are thinking is not at all what you think. Or two parallel passenger trains of thought, one overtaking the other.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Over-analysis is a dream killer. Sometimes you can drown yourself in your own thoughts.

~ Steve Maraboli

My thoughts are free to roam back to the way she leaned her head on my arm for a split second, as if wishing she could let herself go, let herself lean farther. But she didn't, and I can’t help but respect her for that, even I know her strength is false, propped up by the shaky girders of Old Man Jack. One day soon, those girders will collapse, and her world will crumble, and I know I have to be there when that happens.

~ Jasinda Wilder

Your thoughts are transparent.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.

~ Boyd K. Packer

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

~ Georges Duhamel

When we’re not true to our thoughts and not true to the feelings we have deep inside, we find ourselves unhappy. Be courageous enough to align your life with your feelings, desires, and sense of purpose.

~ Steve Maraboli

Busy days galore...thoughts in a kaleidoscope of dervish dances.

~ Al Cash

There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

~ Joel S. Manuel

Ideas and thoughts are like genes...more you keep inside yourself more it multply with same species consuming your whole energy to breed to produce same old ideas and thoughts again and again until it kills you. So, let it be interact with other species..take it out...make reaction with other peoples's thoughts and ideas and produce something new....produce new energy..new thoughts..new perceptions...

~ Jagdish Poudel

Raven had been shunned and abandoned throughout his life. Friends often came and went without a word or worse, they toyed with his emotions and shared his secrets with those he chose to distrust. His loneliness was inevitable and his secrets were damaging enough. Through all of his largely brief but emotionally involved friendships and infatuations, the depression and the darkness of his past, there had been one place to which he could go for solitude—either in thought or in person—and he never shared the knowledge of its existence or its secrets with anyone. That place dwelled within him even all of these years since the summer when he was nine and all that could ever have gone wrong, did.

~ Amanda M. Lyons

My brain as the engine, with thoughts trailing to the caboose, on a one-track mind we keep going forward.

~ Anthony Liccione

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

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Inside me are the real things that give me strength—my thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some polished from frequent turning, some new and rough, some that cut.

~ Ally Condie

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.

~ Hermann Hesse