Our Thoughts Quotes - Page 5

• You go to the marketplace and there are seventeen consciousnesses moving in and out. Sometimes you want the same shirt that I want, and our thought bubbles collide a bit and that makes plot.

  George Saunders

  Moving, Plot, Want

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• We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.

  Wallace Stevens

  Death, Night, Dying

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.351, Vintage

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• There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Suffering, Our Actions, Ethics

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• Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least knowledge of this work of elaboration. Only the results of it become unconscious.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Science, Mind, Important

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• The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Communication, Two Sides, Quality

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• True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Choices, Understanding

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• The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.

  Eric Kandel

  Brain, Our Actions, Emotion

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• Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses the world outside and within, produces love and sorrow, keeps our hearts beating and lungs breathing, composes our thoughts, and constructs our consciousness.

  Carl Zimmer

  Communication, Heart, Breathing

  Carl Zimmer (2014). “Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Our thoughts ought by instinct to fly upwards from animals, men and natural objects to their creator. If created things are so utterly lovely, how gloriously beautiful must he be who made them! The wisdom of the worker is revealed in his handiwork.

  Anthony of Padua

  Beautiful, Men, Animal

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• The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. 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, Men

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always considered in its effect on them-on the race. You see, we are MOTHERS, she repeated, as if in that she had said it all.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother, Country, Children

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2009). “The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings”, p.77, Penguin

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• The rewards of integrity are immeasurable. One is the indescribable inner peace and serenity that come from knowing we are doing what is right; another is an absence of the guilt and anxiety that accompany sin. Another reward of integrity is the confidence it can give us in approaching God. When virtue garnishes our thoughts unceasingly, our confidence is strong in the presence of God.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Strong, Integrity, Knowing

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• Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it. That depends upon attaining a more explicit grasp of the structure of our thoughts; and that in turn on discovering how to give a systematic account of the working of language, the medium in which we express our thoughts.

  Michael Dummett

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

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• Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King and recognize that there are ties between us, all men and women living on the Earth. Ties of hope and love, sister and brotherhood, that we are bound together in our desire to see the world become a place in which our children can grow free and strong. We are bound together by the task that stands before us and the road that lies ahead. We are bound and we are bound.

  James Taylor

  Spiritual, Strong, Kings

  Song: Shed A Little Light, Album: New Moon Shine, 1991

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• The change is radical it gives us new natures, it makes us love what we hated and hate what we loved, it sets us in a new road; it makes our habits different, it makes our thoughts different, it makes us different in private, and different in public.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Hate, Giving

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• The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can actually choose the direction of our thoughts instead of just letting them run along the grooves of conditioned thinking, we become the masters of our own lives.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Life, Running, Thinking

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• Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our thought, but our feelings and actions too, in a way which goes far beyond its official function as a biological theory.

  Mary Midgley

  Views, Feelings, Age

  Mary Midgley, David Midgley (2005). “The Essential Mary Midgley”, p.246, Psychology Press

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• An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our concentration by causing our thoughts to cling to outward things, things that will pass away.

  Johan Oscar Smith

  Life Changing, Enemy, Passing Away

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• Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Writing, Ice, Sea

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• Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.

  Zach Wamp

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

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• Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Writing, Way

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.422, Mango Media Inc.

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• The Self is not in the realm of thought. The Self is in the gap between our thoughts. The cosmic psyche whispers to us softly in the gap between our thoughts.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self, Gaps, Consciousness

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-z Steps to a Richer Life: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?

  John Owen

  Religious, Design, Heaven

  John Owen (1828). “Treatise on Temptation, Or, The Dominion of Sin and Grace: And on the Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded”, p.204

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• Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.

  Thomas Adams

  Christian, Blessing, Ends

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• Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

  Norman Cousins

  Differences, Serenity, Silence

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