Our Thoughts Quotes - Page 11

• What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.

  Ai Weiwei

  Important, Wish, Realms

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

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• We don't have to change our thoughts. We have to get beneath them, to the very essence from which they emerge.

  Suzanne Giesemann

  Essence

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a defeatist or negative thought. Since we create through thought, we need to concentrate very strongly on positive thoughts. If you think you can't do something, you can't. But if you think you can, you may be surprised to discover that you can. It is important that our thoughts be constantly for the best that could happen in a situation - for the good things we would like to see happen.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Powerful, Thinking, Important

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.80, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.

  B. C. Forbes

  Moving, Thinking, Giving

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• When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed.

  David Hume

  Past, Mirrors, Faithful

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1992). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.10, Hackett Publishing

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• I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our aims, the pettiness of our thoughts, the puerility of our conversation!

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Sex, Men, Vanity

  Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”

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• When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.

  Byron Katie

  World, Craziness

  Twitter post from Aug 28, 2015

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• We are what our thoughts have made us

  Swami Vivekananda

  Made

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.22, Advaita Ashrama

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• If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to speak, the world's inheritance,... these are the materials and hints for a history of the rise and progress of the race; how, from the condition of ants, it arrived at the condition of men, and arts were gradually invented. Let a thousand surmises shed some light on this story.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Men, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau’s Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature: Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…”, p.342, e-artnow

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• What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Character, Men

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• And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.481, Penguin

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• If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Men, Particular

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.60, Penguin

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• We've been gifted with the power of choice...in our actions, our thoughts, and our words. The quality of our lives gets better or worse depending on which direction we go with our choices.

  Shawn Anderson

  Choices, Get Better, Quality

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• Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us to find out what we know-and what we don't know-about whatever we're trying to learn.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

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• It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay.

  Baroness Orczy

  Gay, Water, Rolling

  Baroness Orczy (2013). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.151, House of Stratus

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• God's Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and our actions. One of the most effective ways of influencing our minds is through memorizing Scripture. David said, "I have hidden Your Word in my heart that I might not sin against You" (Psm. 119:11).

  Jerry Bridges

  Attitude, Heart, Mind

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.67, NavPress

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• Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at leastin our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them.

  Marcel Proust

  Thoughtful, Power, Thinking

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• Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hope, Children, Thinking

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• I try to be self-disciplined with my thoughts. It’s our thoughts that matter most, and all the rest falls into line behind that: if I remember who I really am and why I’m on the earth, then I more naturally want to treat my body like a temple and so forth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fall, Self, Trying

  "Exclusive Interview with Marianne Williamson". Interview with Amber Zuckswert, epicself.com.

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• Each of our cells is a living entity, and the main thing that influences them is our blood. If I open my eyes in the morning and my beautiful partner is in front of me, my perception causes a release of oxytocin, dopamine, growth hormones - all of which encourage the growth and health of my cells. But if I see a saber tooth tiger, I'm going to release stress hormones which change the cells to a protection mode. People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Beautiful, Morning, Stress

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The guru is a tremendous tradition because is a guide, it's a guide to life, and we can guide energetically, we can guide in our thought, we can have a prayer that travels wonderful things.

  Maya Tiwari

  Prayer, Wonderful, Tradition

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Language

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• Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind's inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,--the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts' shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Suicide, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

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• It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.490, Delphi Classics

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• We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Feelings, Three

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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