Thinking Thoughts Quotes

When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts. ~ J. Budziszewski

I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future - and, most unreasonably, I find myself longing for the past more than for the future. ~ Dodie Smith

If you want to become a positive thinker, don't think lack, think abundance, for you and for everyone. Dream big; as bigger as the blue ocean. Become aware of your thoughts and you will be aware of yourself. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you're always thinking thoughts of lack, not enough, and struggle, you're moving toward the wrong things. ~ Joel Osteen

But he wasn't really thinking properly. It was as if the thoughts were chasing each other round and round his head without managing to catch up with each other. ~ Isabel Hoving

There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms. ~ Anthony Liccione

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them. ~ Criss Jami

What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgements about these things. ~ Epictetus

If you have to dwell on anything, think of noble pure thoughts. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are accustomed to say in New England that few and fewer pigeons visit us every year. Our forests furnish no mast for them. So, it would seem, few and fewer thoughts visit each growing man from year to year, for the grove in our minds is laid waste, - sold to feed unnecessary fires of ambition, or sent to mill, and there is scarcely a twig left for them to perch on. They no longer build nor breed with us. In some more genial season, perchance, a faint shadow flits across the landscape of the mind, cast by the wings of some thought in its vernal or autumnal migration, but, looking up, we are unable to detect the substance of the thought itself. Our winged thoughts are turned to poultry. They no longer soar…. ~ Henry David Thoreau

It takes time for the things to manifest. Everything needs necessary energy for its manifestation. ~ Roshan Sharma

A smart man only tells half of what he thinks. ~ Maya Angelou

Every person experiences life changing, career shocking and pain in love situations; you are no new ~ Deeksha Arora

Becoming the opponent means you should put yourself in an opponent's place and think from the opponent's point of view. ~ Miyamoto Musashi

Positive thinkers use sentences like "I can do it"; "I am qualified for it"; they think of things as possible. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

To thinking, cogitation, I oppose fullness, embodiedness, the sensation of being – not a consciousness of yourself as a kind of ghostly reasoning machine thinking thoughts, but on the contrary the sensation – a heavily affective sensation – of being a body with limbs that have extension in space, of being alive to the world. ~ J.M. Coetzee

It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns
...
It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

By all kinds of traps and sign-boards, threatening the extreme penalty of the divine law, exclude such trespassers from the only ground which can be sacred to you. It is so hard to forget what it is worse than useless to remember! If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain-brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town-sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the bar-room and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed. I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality. Our very intellect shall be macadamized, as it were,--its foundation broken into fragments for the wheels of travel to roll over; and if you would know what will make for the most durable pavement, surpassing rolled stones, spruce blocks, and asphaltum, you have only to look into some of our minds which have been subjected to this treatment so long. ~ Henry David Thoreau

When a person pauses in mid-sentence to choose a word, that's the best time to jump in and change the subject! It's like an interception in football! You grab the others guy's idea and run the opposite way with it! The more sentences you complete, the higher your score! The idea is to block the other guy's thoughts and express your own! That's how you win!

Conversations aren't contests!

Ok, a point for you, but I'm still ahead. ~ Bill Watterson

My worst image of myself is me sitting on a bed, smoking a cigarette, waiting for a phone call and thinking thoughts that don't join together. ~ Joan Juliet Buck

What's emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy of existing forms of thought to cope with the situation. It can't be solved by rational means because the rationality itself is the source of the problem. The only ones who're solving it are solving it at a personal level by abandoning 'square' rationality altogether and going by feelings alone. Like John and Sylvia here. And millions of others like them. And that seems like a wrong direction too. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that the solution to the problem isn't that you abandon rationality but that you expand the nature of rationality so that it's capable of coming up with a solution. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

Watch your thoughts, for they will become the words of people you draw to yourself. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

Think positive, Act positive. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My thoughts are just patterns.
They don't mean to give me grief.
I've got to be mindful,
Question these old beliefs,
Step into my power,
Find the strength I need to heal.
I will not cower.
I will grow through what I feel. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The journey to the center of your soul doesn't start in your heart. It begins in your brain, and taking it makes you among the bravest of the brave for it's a place only the rare dare venture. ~ Toni Sorenson

Imagination is a confident hope. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Press on eternally to the higher and larger realization of absolute goodness, and leave results to the law. More and more real goodness will naturally appear in all your thoughts and actions. You will therefore become good, not by thinking that you are good, but by thinking thoughts that are created in the image and likeness of that which is good. ~ Christian D. Larson

Life isn't about just talking, it's about thinking too. ~ Marie Symeou

Set your mind free from any negative thoughts. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are designed for harmony, an ebb and flow that's almost inconceivable it's so flawless. So when things go wrong and our cells can't communicate with each other, or there is miscommunication, there is a direct biological link to why we don't think clearly, we don't feel right, and our lives get stalled.
It happens when a child gets abused.
It happens when a brain gets physically wounded.
It happens when fear or pain is so great it overrides everything else.
It happens during times of prolonged stress.
It happens in the throes of depression.
It happens when the brain gets pounded with negativity.
And sometimes we just don't know why the wires in our brains get crossed. ~ Toni Sorenson

You see, everything going on in your life is stemming within you. The control of your life should always be in your hands. What other people think about you should not stop you from moving forward in life. ~ Hina Hashmi

The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom. ~ Criss Jami

Your mentality can assassinate your character.
What a person thinks, he or she becomes.
If you want a change or to change. Then change your mentality. ~ De Philosopher DJ Kyos

Thoughts come out of nowhere like everything else. ~ Marty Rubin

Your thoughts are transparent. ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

You are beyond worth and your potential to change is in your next thought. ~ Toni Sorenson

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking. ~ Santosh Kalwar

Be the master of your mind, dwell on positive thoughts. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The mind is the sacred centre of all attraction. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Just think about this: haven't we been going just to and fro? The whole world rather. Years back, it was good to take vitamin supplements and today they are considered hampering body's natural immune. Sometime back, people were desperate to land up in high paying jobs, today there is a big entrepreneurship fad. Back in years, it was a pride to be settled in the city, now people are giving up all responsibilities to settle at a peaceful country side.
What are we all really doing? We are moving from pillar to post, forward and backward on theories. We are all as confused as the next person. And unfortunately, we are all going to leave this world with barely being able to decipher much. ~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

But more important than the food I put into my body are thoughts I put into my mind. Thoughts of bitterness like, "I hate her!" Thoughts of despair like, "I'll never be happy again." Thoughts of fear like, "I could never do that!" And thoughts of worry, thoughts of greed and thoughts of self-loathing ... "I'm so stupid." A constant diet of these killer thoughts will destroy any of us long before heart burn or cholesterol. ~ Steve Goodier

Positive thinkers look for good in every situation. In times of difficulty, the can find many opportunities. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

As Christians, we call ourselves people of faith, but how much practical faith do we really have? ~ Lisa Bedrick

Everyone deserv a chance maybe 2 or 3, but always this guy wants something and before he didn't made it don't mean that now again won't reach a conclusion. ~ Deyth Banger

What does the anticipation feel like? The sensation of staring into the void, the awareness of an end's impending arrival? Burning and being extinguished simultaneously? ~ Teo Yi Han

Another real danger to young men is thoughtlessness and lack of consideration. Lack of thought is one simple reason why thousands of souls are cast away forever. Men will not consider,-will not look forward,-will not look around them,-will not reflect on the end of their present course, and the sure consequences of their present ways,-and awake at last to find they are damned for lack of thinking. ~ J.C. Ryle

To have Zen is to be in a state of pure sensation. It is to be freed from the grip of concepts, to see through them. This is not the same as rejecting conceptual thinking. Thoughts and words are in the world and are as natural as flowers. It is a mistake therefore to think that Zen is anti-intellectual. ~ Alan Keightley

Take notice of what thoughts you choose to fill your mind with each day. Our thoughts draw to us whatever is dominating our mind, so always keep what you are thinking about in check. ~ Miya Yamanouchi

III
But may I, when alone again I have the city's crush
and tangled noise-skein and the furor
of its traffic all around me,
may I above the mindless swirl
recall sky and the gentle mountain rim
on which the far-off herd curved homeward.
May my spirit be hard as rock
and the shepherd's life to me seem possible-
the way he drifts and turns brown in the sun and with a practiced
stone-throw mends his flock, whenever it frays.
Steps slow, not light, his body pensive,
but in his standing there, majestic. Even now a god
might enter this form and not be lessened.
He lingers for a while, then moves on, like the day itself,
and shadows of the clouds
pass through him, as though space were slowly
thinking thoughts for him. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Osaka: Ah Get to ponderin' when Christmas rolls around. Y'all know Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer? That's messed up, y'know?

Saying his nose will help light the way at night ain't no way t'make him feel better about it.

If you told a bald fella you needed the light reflecting off his head to see, he'd like to punch you. Santa's a cruel bully. ~ Kiyohiko Azuma

It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood. ~ Lucy Christopher

Imagination is a glorious wonder. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Perking up, the little girl said, "Is your head hurt mister, 'cause you keep rubbing it?"
Pausing, David said, "Ah, no. Sometimes it's just the thoughts that hurt. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.
Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel brain" are given over to one thought: food.
The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat. ~ Kate DiCamillo

Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

I jump up: it would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns: "I have to fi. . . I ex. . . Dead . . . M. de Roll is dead . . . I am not ... I ex. . ." It goes, it goes . . . and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I. The body lives by itself once it has begun. But though I am the one who continues it, unrolls it. I exist. How serpentine is this feeling of existing, I unwind it, slowly. ... If I could keep myself from thinking! I try, and succeed: my head seems to fill with smoke . . . and then it starts again: "Smoke . . . not to think . . . don't want to think ... I think I don't want to think. I mustn't think that I don't want to think. Because that's still a thought." Will there never be an end to it?
My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think . . . and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment, it's frightful, if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire: the hatred, the disgust of existing, there are as many ways to make myself exist, to thrust myself into exist ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

A blind man's thoughts almost never have anything to do with the things he is facing. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What you think is your Karma. I hold myself to great Karma. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

More often than not, it's better to give up thinking, worrying and obsessing, in favour of faith that things will work out fine. ~ Sue Fitzmaurice

All truly toxic thoughts are expelled while moving. Gotta move to stay alive. ~ Toni Sorenson

Only about two percent of one percent of our thoughts deserve to be taken seriously. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

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

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

ING is ending for something which continue and continue...
So Morning - Continue - Start
AfterNoon - The Middle - Almost finish
Night - The ENd - Finish ~ Deyth Banger

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

Our life depends on the kind of thoughts we nurture. If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like. If our attention is turned to the circumstances in which we live, we are drawn into a whirlpool of thoughts and can have neither peace nor tranquility. ~ Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

Positive thinkers create large pictures of what they want in their minds and can predict the future from the present. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Creativity is salve for the soul ~ Phillip Gary Smith

In our thoughts, we hold the key to our feelings. In our minds, we hold the key to love. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

If the human brain is really capable of having 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts per day, Brent was living proof, because he never stopped thinking. ~ Kenneth Eade

When I capture my thoughts and compare them to the truth of God's Word, I often find they are false, deceptive, or destructive. ~ Lori Hatcher

The quality of our lives lives, depends on the quality of our thoughts. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your brain with all its parts, exists to keep you safe, but your mind, with all your memories and intuition, exists to help you soar. ~ Toni Sorenson

Every goal first started as something in our mind. You have it all within you! ~ Deborah Day

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

A robin perched on the branch of the apple tree, his feathers ruffled, his red chest blazing.
'No need to look so down in the mouth,' he chirruped. 'Things'll get worse before they get better.'
'I don't know what it is about that tree,' Geno grumbled, 'that makes everything that sits in it talk in proverbs.'
'It's easier than thinking,' the robin stated. ~ Felix Salten

An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'. ~ John Steinbeck

Why do I always have so many fucking questions in my head? ~ Jessica Sorensen

Take charge of your thoughts; for either it's slaying you or serving you ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

You mind is well-spring of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

Your mind controls your actions and that means when your mind gives you designed thoughts, your actions too are going to be designed actions! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Positive thinkers always affirm blessings on themselves and see themselves as legitimate heirs. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Man is a measure of his mind. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Things will happen that you can't prevent, things will fall apart that you can't hold together, but ultimately you're shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people see you as or what you want to be. ~ Erik Tomblin

For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth. ~ Zora Neale Hurston

You might think of a thought as an invisible, innocuous little thing. Something that barely exists. But a thought is something hard to conceal. Hold a thought and it melts all over your hands. Touch something else and now you've left traces of it. Hide it under your shirt and it bleeds through. ~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls

A healthy mind observes and questions itself. This is the path to inner peace and happiness. Don't believe everything you think. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

The character, therefore, will depend upon the thoughts. I am what I think. I am what I think even more than what I do, for it is the thought that interprets the action. An act in itself good may become even bad by the thought that inspired it. ~ Basil W. Maturin

You don't have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them. ~ Doug Dillon

To attract money, you must focus on wealth. It is impossible to bring more money into your life when you are noticing you do not have enough, because that means you are thinking thoughts that you do not have enough. ~ Rhonda Byrne

Thoughts not only manifest into reality,
they define it. ~ Jorge Gw

There are three levels of consciousness.
The first level is when you stop thinking and letting outside sources think for you. In which you become a different mind.
The second is simply thinking.
The third the highest form of consciousness. Is when you rise ABOVE thought. Transcend thought by shutting it completely off. ~ Matthew Donnelly

Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out. ~ Criss Jami

How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time? ~ Joyce Rachelle

Dreaming is the art of thinking deep about who you want to be, what you are moved by your God-guided passion to do and what you are convinced to be the passion that moves the machinery of your body ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers,
and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things.
It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about. ~ Earl Nightingale

Since everything is a reflection of our minds,everything can be changed by our minds. ~ Gautama Buddha