Our Thoughts Quotes - Page 14

• We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

  Napoleon Hill

  Fate, Soul, Captains

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.20, Penguin

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• Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person you're with; he or she is the perfect teacher for you, whether or not the relationship works out, and once you enter inquiry, you come to see that clearly.

  Byron Katie

  Teacher, Mistake, Work Out

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Compassion, Our Words, Our Actions

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• A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a
  failure, and then fail all the more completely because he
  drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the
  English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because
  our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language
  makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

  George Orwell

  Men, Ugly, May

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We lift ourselves by our thought.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Lifts

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• If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Morning, Prayer, Effort

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• The whole thing resolves itself into our mental ability to control our thought. The man who can do this can have what he wants, can do what he wishes and becomes what he wills.

  Ernest Holmes

  Men, Wish, Want

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “Creative Mind”, p.41, Penguin

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• ...we should realize that there are three sources for our thoughts - God, the devil, and ourselves.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Devil, Three

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• We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.

  Frank Herbert

  Moving, Cutting, Reality

  "The Santaroga Barrier". Book by Frank Herbert, 1968.

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• Our minds must meditate on some object. According to what he thinks, a man can create an atmosphere of radiance, exuberance, buoyancy; and this brings joy. Or he can carry gloom with him. It is a matter of the habit of thought. We must build up our own life by our thoughts. There are many ways by which we can do this. Art, music, even manual work, all can bring ripening to the soul.

  Swami Paramananda

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• When we change our thoughts, we can truly change the world.

  Louise Hay

  World, Changing The World

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• When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.

  Hermann Hesse

  Home, Tree, Joy

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought.

  Richard Bach

  Our Lives

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.5, Delta

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• There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.

  J. C. Ryle

  Littles, Action, Accounts

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• Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.

  Terence McKenna

  Destiny, Thinking, Body

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life. We grow into the thing that fills our thoughts as inevitably as the stream merges into the ocean at last.

  Emmet Fox

  Ocean, Keys, Giving

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• If we allow our thoughts to arise and dissolve by themselves,
  they will pass through our mind as a bird flies through the sky,
  without leaving a trace.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Sky, Bird, Leaving

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• I do not know of any divine commands. I do know of most important human ones. I do not know the needs of a god or of another world. . . . I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one. I do know that the needs of humanity and this world are infinite unending constant and immediate. They will take all our time our strength our love and our thoughts; and our work here will be only then begun.

  Helen H. Gardener

  Humanity, Important, Needs

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• Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the page. I draw as a collagist, juxtaposing images and styles of mark-making from many sources. The world I draw is the interior landscape of my own personal obsessions and of cultures I have absorbed and adapted, from Latvian folk art to Japanese screens. I lasso thoughts with a pen. I draw a stave church or someone from Hello! magazine not because I want to replicate how they look, but because of the meaning they bring to the work.

  Grayson Perry

  Art, Drawing, Style

  "Grayson Perry lassos thoughts with a pen" by Grayson Perry, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• Instead of dissecting Scripture, we need to let Scripture dissect us our thoughts and attitudes, our dreams and desires, our fears and hopes.

  Mark Batterson

  Dream, Attitude, Desire

  Mark Batterson (2013). “All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life”, p.32, Zondervan

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• As we watch the world embrace the Olympics in the coming days, let us remember why the modern Olympics came into being: to bring nations closer together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war. As long as we believe our own war-driven thoughts, there will always be war, in ourselves, in our families, and in our world. As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

  Byron Katie

  Sports, War, Believe

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• There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older, it's time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

  Ray Stevens

  Nature, Attitude, Lying

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• Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us into silence every word became as precious as a declaration of principle; because we were persecuted, each of our gestures carried the weight of a commitment.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Powerful, Commitment, Silence

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• Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Nothing holds us back but our thoughts.

  Steve Hagen

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