Thoughts Quotes

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.