Thoughts Quotes

• The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Men
  • Words
  • Thoughts

• When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Mind
  • Mother
  • Born

• In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Reading
  • Thoughts
  • Author

• Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Peace
  • Angry

• I never was interested in politics. I'm quite unable to work up any kind of belligerent feeling. Just as I'm about to feel belligerent about some country I meet a decent sort of chap. We go out together and lose any fighting thoughts or feelings.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Work
  • Country

• When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Black
  • Evil

• Often on a journey of spiritual transformation, that is ultimately what heals the pain: the veil is removed from in front of our own eyes and we see where we had been thinking thoughts that would inevitably lead to pain. Until we change those thoughts, the pain will remain.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thinking
  • Eyes
  • Pain

• Sometimes I implant thoughts, sometimes I extract thoughts, but I don't like to explain it too much. It's based on science, deduction, and reasoning - it's a bit like what 'Sherlock' does, except that's a dramatised version. I look at every clue around me.

  

  Keith Barry
  • Science
  • Thoughts

• From Lee: I believe that the mind may make its own immortality : thought is the spiritual part of existence ; and so long as my mind influences others, so long as my thoughts remain behind, so long shall my spirit be conscious and immortal. The body may perish-not so the essence which survives in the living and lasting page.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Mind

• ...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Fishing

• Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Thoughts
  • Emotional
  • Survival

• Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • World
  • Thoughts

• So I go back and forth foreverAll my thoughts they come in pairsOh I will, I won't, I doubt, I don't,I'm not surprised but I never feel quite prepared

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Thoughts
  • Doubt

• Think your own thoughts.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Thoughts

• The seething racial resentment in the Third World against the West — decades after independence and trillions in foreign aid — should cause second thoughts about opening our borders to mass immigration from that world. Not everyone coming here brings in his heart the passionate attachment to America we attribute to the peoples of Ellis Island.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Heart
  • America

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

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Way
  • Water
  • Pity

• I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Moments
  • Thoughts

• If the mind is calm, your spontaneity and honest thoughts appear. You become more spontaneous.

  

  Chade-Meng Tan
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Calm

• Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

  

  Kourtney Kardashian
  • Alone
  • Growth
  • Everyday

• I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness". . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to accept whatever came.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Accept
  • Conclusion
  • Mindfulness

• I'm going to work hard not to have any wrong thoughts!

  

  James Clavell
  • Work
  • Thoughts

• We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Death

• May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • May
  • Today
  • Violence

• I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!

  

  Angel Olsen
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

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