My Thoughts Quotes

• My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Thinking, Ideas, Together

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.74

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• my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah

  Mitch Albom

  Bible, Book, Way

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• My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.

  Anais Nin

  Pride, Worry, Talent

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• Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence. . . .

  Marjorie Holmes

  Life, Blessing, Thinking

  Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Freedom, Thinking, People

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• Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

  Bertrand Russell

  Halloween, Men, Anxiety

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel”, p.95, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Men, Thinking, Make You Think

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanisław Jerzy Lec, translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

  Bertrand Russell

  Privilege, Habit, Institutions

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel”, p.96, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

  William Shakespeare

  Language Words, Heaven, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 3, l. 97

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• Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

  Bertrand Russell

  Privilege, Revolutionary, Habit

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Why Men Fight”, p.107, Routledge

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• Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Success, Stress, Ignorance

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• Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

  Bertrand Russell

  Courage, Men, Light

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Why Men Fight”, p.107, Routledge

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• Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Men, Light

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel”, p.96, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wisdom, Thinking, Government

  Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962

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  A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

  William James

  Motivational, Inspiring, Attitude

  "American Treasury, 1455 - 1955". Book by Clifton Fadimany, 1455 - 1955, 1955.

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  Change your thoughts and you change your world.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Norman Vincent Peale (1970). “Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence”

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• My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

  John Green

  Stars, I Hate You, Green

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.176, Penguin

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• My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

  Claudius

  Language And Power, Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Revenge

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• I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Prayer, Fear, School

  Corrie ten Boom, Judith Couchman (2003). “Anywhere He Leads Me”

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• That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Writing, Trying, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes it pleased Thee to let me feel the heavy hand of Thy displeasure and to humiliate my proud heart by manifold castigations. Sickness and misfortune didst Thou send upon me to turn my thoughts to my errantries.-One thing, only, O Father, do I ask: cease not to labor for my betterment. In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to Thee and become fruitful in good works.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Father, Mean, Heart

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood." Those were my thoughts, and this was how this crazy book [Winter Journal] was composed. I've never seen a book with pictures like at the end, pictures related to things you've read before.

  Paul Auster

  Crazy, Book, Writing

  Source: transatlantica.revues.org

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• One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect/writing is that I was given almost total freedom to read/write/look at whatever I wanted. I wonder a lot about how my past experiences, particularly my negative childhood (home life and being severely bullied/ostracized throughout school) as formed my/my thoughts/my writing, though I should also note those things were far from the only thing that had an impact on me/my writing.

  Marie Calloway

  Home, Writing, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have different routines for different types of chaos. When I find myself swamped with work and surrounded by people, I try to carve out time to walk my dog alone so I can organize my thoughts.

  Amanda Schull

  Dog, People, Trying

  "Amanda Schull Suits and 12 Monkeys actor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time... before writing them down... once I have grasped a theme. I shall not forget it even years later. I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head... [the work] rises, it grows, I hear and see the image n front of me from every angle... and only the labor of writing it down remains... I turn my ideas into tones that resound, roar, and rage until at last they stand before me in the form of notes.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Writing, Ideas, Years

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