Think your own thoughts.
~By Lydia Lunch ~
As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
~By James Lane Allen ~
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
~By Theodore White ~
High thoughts must have high language.
~By Aristophanes ~
The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.
~By William Bell ~
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.
~By Erno Rubik ~
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.
~By William Whewell ~
I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.
~By Jeremy Renner ~
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
~By Walker Evans ~
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
~By Voltaire ~
We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
~By Gary Player ~
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
~By Axel Munthe ~
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
~By William James ~
The universe is one of God's thoughts.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.
~By Loretta Young ~
If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.
~By Brad Bird ~
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.
~By Corbin Bleu ~
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
~By James Lane Allen ~
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
~By James Lane Allen ~
I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
~By Philip Guston ~
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
~By Aeschylus ~
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
~By Empedocles ~
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
~By Carl Sagan ~
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
~By Victor Hugo ~
I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.
~By Nafisa Joseph ~
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.
~By Jai Rodriguez ~
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
~By William Godwin ~
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
~By Peace Pilgrim ~
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
~By Albert Camus ~
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
~By James Allen ~
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
~By Herman Hesse ~
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
~By Euclid ~
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
~By Brian Tracy ~
Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.
~By Scott Dixon ~
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.
~By Jeff Goldblum ~
I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.
~By Joichi Ito ~
Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
~By Sarah Bernhardt ~
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
~By George Berkeley ~
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
~By Walt Whitman ~
But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.
~By Kirsten Dunst ~
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.
~By Dean Inge ~
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
~By Isaac Mayer Wise ~
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
~By Dean Koontz ~
Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.
~By Dick Armey ~
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records.
~By Jerry Harrison ~
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
~By William Shenstone ~
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
~By Horace Walpole ~
I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.
~By Peter Steele ~
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
~By Philip James Bailey ~
Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.
~By Jim Rogers ~
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
~By Marcel Marceau ~
Our best thoughts come from others.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
Great thoughts always come from the heart.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.
~By Dave Mustaine ~
I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.
~By Peace Pilgrim ~
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
~By Paracelsus ~
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
~By John Milton ~
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
~By Jean Rostand ~
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
~By Olive Schreiner ~
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
~By Buddha ~
It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
~By Robert Collier ~
Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.
~By Larry Miller ~
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
Night is the mother of thoughts.
~By John Florio ~
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
~By David R. Brower ~
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
~By James Harvey Robinson ~
And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go back to historical levels or even go back to scary thoughts that they're back in the late '70s, early '80s, then that's going to really be hard to actually pay off those debts. It's going to be a - it's going to be a very big problem.
~By Ben Quayle ~
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
~By Voltaire ~
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
~By Confucius ~
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
~By E. O. Wilson ~
I will commit myself to making this state an even greater place to live, work and raise a family. I intend to reach out from border to border to hear first-hand from our citizens about their thoughts, concerns and ideas for our state.
~By Dave Heineman ~
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
~By Madame de Stael ~
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
~By John Dryden ~
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
~By Alexander Pope ~
Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.
~By Richard Cowper ~
Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.
~By Gustav Klimt ~
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