Our Thoughts Quotes - Page 17

• Our thoughts determine our age.

  Yoko Ono

  Age, Determine

  Interview with Takashi Murakami, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2009.

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• I'm absolutely convinced that this is a world of appearances, not reality. There's one reality and that's Light and Love. When some say, we create our own reality, I always demur and say, "Please, would you mind adjusting that a little bit? We create our own appearances." We become master of appearances and as we change our thought, we will see the appearances around us change. That gives us this huge sense of dominion and power and control over our world.

  Richard Bach

  Reality, Our World, Light

  Source: rbach.proboards.com

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• For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.

  Pierre Soulages

  Art, Imagination, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the Lord's discourse on spiritual nourishment, we hear Him says: "Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life." (John 6:27). He then continued by talking about the true bread from Heaven the bread of God, and the bread of life. (John 6:32-35). Here He appeals to the soul for its nourishment and our thoughts to the spiritual way so as not to occupy our minds with the body and its needs.

  Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

  Spiritual, Talking, Bread Of Life

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• Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.

  Martha Beck

  Self Esteem, Stress, Suffering

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• What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.

  Richard Eyre

  Memories, Feelings, Humanity

  "Richard Eyre: Arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid" by Richard Eyre, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2011.

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• This earthly body is slow and heavy in all its motions, listless and soon tired with action. But our heavenly bodies shall be as fire; as active and as nimble as our thoughts are.

  John Wesley

  Tired, Fire, Heaven

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Sermons”, p.512

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• You and I shouldn't claim we love Oregon more than anyone else, but that we love Oregon as much as anyone. Our thoughts today, and our deliberations to come, must spring from our determination to keep Oregon lovable and to make it even more livable.

  Tom McCall

  Determination, Spring, Oregon

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• We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.

  John Ortberg

  Moving, Belief, Conformity

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.158, Harper Collins

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• What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Technology, Feelings

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• Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt to synthesize apparent opposites. However, citizens of the New Age often forget that, when they involve science, analogies should be tempered by experiment and calculation.

  Tony Rothman

  Thinking, Opposites, Age

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• Take care of your inner beauty, your spiritual beauty, and that will reflect in your face. We have the face we created over the years. Every bad deed, every bad fault will show on your face. God can give us beauty and genes can give us our features, but whether that beauty remains or changes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.

  Dolores del Rio

  Spiritual, Years, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords…I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work together…and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.

  Cressida Cowell

  Beautiful, Dream, Believe

  "How To Train Your Dragon: How To Speak Dragonese". Book by Cressida Cowell, 2017.

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• The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.

  Sam Harris

  Meditation, Way, Waking

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• A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.

  Winston Churchill

  Effort, Mind, Bars

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.

  James Anthony Froude

  Character

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.342

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• Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.

  Blaise Pascal

  Yesterday, Achievement, Today

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• We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Faith, Men, Doubt

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Mythologies”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

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• Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Sleep, Angel, Feet

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1829). “The Venetian bracelet: the lost pleiad ; a history of the lyre, and other poems”, p.111

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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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• Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Play, Ideas, Clarity

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment.

  Louis Pasteur

  Wings, Giving, Imagination

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• Nurture your felt love for nature. Never deny it. That love is the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity of nature sustaining us in its perfection. Our disconnection from this love and its advice produces our hurt, greed and destructiveness. We must reconnect and restore its peaceful voice in our thoughts, soul and surroundings.

  Michael J Cohen

  Hurt, Love Is, Voice

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• The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.

  George Eliot

  Life, Heart, Men

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.6, 谷月社

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• In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather than from an ideal conception of justice; ... They remind us that the God we are seeking is present and active, that he is the living God; they are doubtless necessary if we are to keep religion from passing into a mere idealism and God into the vanishing point of our thought and endeavour.

  George Santayana

  Justice, Heaven, World

  "Interpretations of Poetry and Religion" by George Santayana, (p. 54), 1900.

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