Our Thoughts Quotes

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.

Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.

If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.

Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.

The more we make an effort to keep our thoughts positive, the more pleasurable our journey in life will be.

With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.

Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.

Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.

To avoid the trap of the Pharisees, we've got to guard the interconnection between our thoughts and our attitudes.

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.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

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

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

The best way to improve our lives is to improve our thoughts.

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.

Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.

The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.

Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.

It is extremely urgent to try and adapt our thoughts realistically to a world which has no fixed general direction either upward or downward, but is likely to vary largely according to what we do.

Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.

An old man said, We are not condemned because of our thoughts that enter us, but because we use our thoughts badly; our thoughts can cause us either to suffer shipwreck or to be crowned.

It is people who pause to appreciate life and give thanks who are happiest. If we change our thoughts, we change our world! Love and peace to you all.

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

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

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.

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.

The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.

Let's fill our minds with thoughts of peace, courage, health, and hope, for "our life is what our thoughts make it."

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

We are limited only by our thoughts

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.

if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives

Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.

Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression of loyalty, love, and respect.

We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.

Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.

Our thoughts make us what we are.

When we direct our thoughts properly i.e. 'Things could be worse but aren't', we can control our emotions... i.e. and feel relieved, grateful, satisfied, hopeful and happy

Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race.

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?