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The only other white people we saw during the three days we stayed there were a German couple intent on taking pictures of their stuffed sheep in a variety of locations around the world.
— Tynan, Life Nomadic: How to Travel the World for Less Than You Pay in Rent
You must regard this deviation from your plan as part of the adventure that you sought when you decided to embark on it in the first place...Absence of certainty is its essence. People...who choose to shun the mundane must not only expect, but also enjoy and profit from surprises.
— Adam Yamey, Aliwal
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first.Even I didn't jump first.Her eyes were so stern, so insistent.Beautiful.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
— Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques
When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.
— Guillaume Musso, Will You Be There?
Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don’t understand. Thoughts that aren’t even true—that aren’t really how we feel—but they’re running through our heads anyway because they’re interesting to think about.If you could hear other people’s thoughts, you’d overhear things that are true as well as things that are completely random. And you wouldn’t know one from the other. It’d drive you insane. What’s true? What’s not? A million ideas, but what do they mean?
— Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn’t perfect. You can’t get all the way inside someone else… But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills the fascists
— John Green, Paper Towns
We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
— Albert Einstein
For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.
— Lady Gaga
It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
If brains could have orgasms, I'm pretty sure this was what it would feel like.
— Cora Carmack, Losing It
There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.There are worse things than these miniature betrayals,committed or endured or suspected; there are worse thingsthan not being able to sleep for thinking about them.It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking inand stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.
— Fleur Adcock
Sometimes I feel as though there are two me's, one coasting directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when she's supposed to nod and says what she's supposed to say, and some other, deeper part, the part that worries and dreams... Most of the time they move along in sync and I hardly notice the split, but sometimes it feels as though I'm two whole different people and I could rip apart at any second.
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live... surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place."Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I feel as though, if I were to extend my hand just a little toward the pool where the ideas ferment, I could grab at the idea and pull it out of the pool and onto the floor where ideas must stand before the jury of the brain. There, it must present itself, still from the pool, and a bit shivery because new ideas are not given a towel to dry off with, towels being reserved for proven theories; new ideas are simply pulled and stood up, and asked to explain themselves - not a very pleasant thing really, which is why so many people go into the room where the pool is. The exercise is exhausting not to mention a bit difficult to watch, if you are at all a sympathetic creature. What was my idea, anyways?
— Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
— Voltaire
Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Both Christian and Adrian had worried there would be some piece of Strigoi left in him, but their fears had been about violence and bloodshed. No one would have guessed this: that living as a Strigoi had hardened his heart, killing any chance of him loving anyone.Killing any chance of him loving me.And I was pretty sure that if that was the case, then part of me would die too.
— Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound
Can't you give me brains?" asked the Scarecrow."You don't need them. You are learning something every day. A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.
— L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Thoughts are divine.
— Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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.
— Axel Munthe
Where the mind goes the man follows.
— Joyce Meyer
For a moment he wondered, again, if he should just give it all up. Perhaps he should go back to Italy, back to his hiding place. What made him think that he could rejoin the world of daylight?But he was tired of living in shadows. He was tired of the darkness, and of the things that lived in it. Most of all, he was tired of being alone.
— L.J. Smith, The Awakening
I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Perhaps you can feel if you can’t hear,” was her fancy. “Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don’t know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world’s store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.
— Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere
Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.
— Anthony Liccione
From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school.That's why they become politicians.
— Anthony Horowitz, Skeleton Key
They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?
— Amy Jenkins, Funny Valentine
Do not share your thoughts with people who think that what you are thinking is not worth thinking.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Positive thoughts lead to positive results.
— Maria V. Snyder, Touch of Power
Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.
— Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.
— Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.
— Janet Fitch
To understand the truth of everything,it took guts more than simply thinking.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.
— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
Remember that your dominating thoughts attract, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what your thoughts dwell upon.
— Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
— Germaine de Staël
The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.
— Washington Irving
Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.
— A.J. Jacobs
Trippers and askers surround me,People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward andcity I live in, or the nation,The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors oldand new,My dinner, dress, associates, looks, compliments, dues,The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,The sickness of one of my folks or of myself, or ill-doing or lossor lack of money, or depressions or exaltations,Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news,the fitful events;These come to me days and nights and go from me again,But they are not the Me myself.Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary,Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next,Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it.Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog withlinguists and contenders,I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait. 
— Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.
— Walter de la Mare, The Return
These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.
— Jim Crace, Harvest
Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours.
— Alain de Botton, The Course of Love
Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.
— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.
— Terry Goodkind, Blood of the Fold
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
— Napoleon Hill
Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person.We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence.
— Terry Goodkind, Blood of the Fold
...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.
— Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl
Life is too hard, too much to handle. Nobody told me there’d be days like these. How could nobody tell me there’d be days like these? How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?
— Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever
You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.
— Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher
The world follows its own course. Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path. So it is with your mother, and so it is with your starling. As it is with everyone. The world follows its own course.
— Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library
One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
Choose thoughts that give you the emotions of being alive and excited about life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers.
— Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Tomorrow's Eve
You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.
— Emily Saliers
So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously, What overwhelms people when they are about to leaves friends, family, old haunts and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts.
— Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings
A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.
— Phoebe Stone, The Romeo And Juliet Code
In my contact with people I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls -- with the great outside world. No man whose vision is bounded by colour can come into contact with what is highest and best in the world. In meeting men, in many places, I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least. I have also found that few things, if any, are capable of making one so blind and narrow as race prejudice. I often say to our students, in the course of my talks to them on Sunday evenings in the chapel, that the longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for -- and dying for, if need be -- is the opportunity of making some one else more happy and more useful.
— Booker T. Washington
Our thoughts dictate how we feel
—  so it is important to recognize that we are as we think we are
If only [there] really was a door and [you] could walk through it into another life, where threads didn't snarl and stitches didn't go all tight and tiny. Where people loved you and didn't leave you for someone else.
— Karen Hancock, The Shadow Within
Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Sometimes when you had a thought, it refused to leave. You rejected it, disowned it, sent it away, to find, moments later, that you were still spending time with it. It might have a different shape or use different words, but there was no mistaking: it was the same one.
— Cecilia Ekbäck, Wolf Winter
thoughts are cheap and they don't hurt anybody
— Martha Brooks, Mistik Lake
Successful people don't have a limit whereas unsuccessful people often draw a line of limit
— Santosh Avvannavar, Black, Grey and White
Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Most of my beholders are blind.
— Basith, Autopsy of the seasons
The surveillance, he thought, essentially should be maintained. And, if possible, by me. I should always be watching, watching and figuring out, even if I never do anything about what I see; even if I just sit there and observe silently, not seen: that is important, that I as a watcher of all that happens should be at my place.
— Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
Probably nothing, but it was one of those thoughts like toothpaste: Once it’s out, you can’t squeeze it back in.
— Kate Brady, One Scream Away
The scatterbrain,is a little like,the patter of rain.Neither here,nor there,but everywhere.
— Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure
Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.
— Anthony Horowitz, Ark Angel
We are not trapped by our thoughts. What we generally do, however, is create thoughts that trap us.” (p.162)
— Joshua David Stone, A Beginner's Guide to the Path of Ascension (The Ascension Series)
I don't know what I'd do without you. There's no one else to look after me. And it's not just that. I sometimes think you're the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when I'm with you.
— Anthony Horowitz, Ark Angel
Our thoughts create our world.
— Stephen Richards
What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Reflect your thoughts and watch others mirror them back to you.
— Stephen Richards
Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you don’t know how you got from one to the next.
— Franny Billingsley, Chime
The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart”.
— Robert Murray McCheyne
For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
...being able to listen to unrepeatable secrets, wishes, and desires wasn't as wonderful as it seemed...being aware of what other people felt at every moment would come to cause him a lot of headaches, and huge disappointments in love.
— Laura Esquivel, Swift as Desire
I want to douse myself in silver words and whisper away all rue.
— Basith, Autopsy of the seasons
It was one of those days when I was thinking too much, too fast. Only it was more like the thoughts had a mind of their own and going all by themselves at a hundred miles a second, and I was just sitting back, feeling the growing paranoia inside of me.
— Sasha Mizaree
The thoughts of othersWere light and fleeting,Of lovers' meetingOr luck or fame.Mine were of trouble,And mine were steady;So I was readyWhen trouble came.
— A.E. Housman, More Poems
I sit up in bed and watch her fiddle about in the back of my wardrobe. I think she's got a plan. That's what's good about Zoey. She'd better hurry up though, because I'm starting to think of things like carrots. And air. And ducks. And pear trees. Velvet and silk. Lakes. I'm going to miss ice. And the sofa. And the lounge. And the way Cal loves magic tricks. And white things- milk, snow, swans.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts about Adam lived and disconnected the electricity and boarded up all the doors and windows, so nothing could get out.Obviously it was very unsightly. There were bound to be complaints from the neighboring thoughts. But I had no choice.
— Marian Keyes, Watermelon
That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were, many and most of them, locked on the other side a closed door that he’s lost the key for. So his memory became like secrets held away from his own mind. But these secrets were noisy things; they babbled and muttered behind the door, and so if he listened closely he might catch a snatch of something he once knew well.
— Walter Mosley, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
Synergy between thoughts and feelings reads the universe like an opened book.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
And what do I think about? What thoughts do I have! - What thoughts! a whole host, multitude, and world of thoughts, I keep devising new ones and reworking old ones, some of the old ones are concluded and are only thought of as conclusions, whole worlds of new ones come crashing into my fingers, and it never ends.
— Jack Kerouac, Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow s
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.
— Virginia Woolf
While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by habit and the familiar quiet of early morning, she was aware that at the back of her mind there was another thought that was not at all stale, but so fresh that it was nearly a feeling, with all a feeling's delicious power to kill thought.
— Stella Gibbons, Nightingale Wood
Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.
— Nyanaponika Thera
Never underestimate the power of thought
—  it is the greatest path to discovery.
but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers
— John Green
Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.
— Paolo Bacigalupi, The Drowned Cities
You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
If you want victory in your life you must learn to be alone with your own thoughts and cause them to be correct thoughts!
— Sandra Hersey, Help! I'm Alone with My Mind!: A Guide to Having Victory over Your Thoughts
Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
— Voltaire, Dialogues satiriques  philosophiques: suivis du sermon des cinquante
she looked up at the stars and gave Tibby thanks. She didn't have to throw her thoughts far to know they reached her.
— Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting
Never take someone for granted based on your perception and act on it, for that would yield in ultimate disaster!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.
— William J. Federer, Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic
But he wasn't really thinking properly. It was as if the thoughts were chasing each other round and round his head without managing to catch up with each other.
— Isabel Hoving, The Dream Merchant
There is no such thing as a secret mind or secret me apart from the Lord.
— Kevin Thoman
It is commonplace to talk as if the world "has" meaning, to ask what "is" the meaning of a phrase, a gesture, a painting, a contract. Yet when thought about, it is clear that events are devoid of meaning until someone assigns it to them.
— Dean C. Barnlund
Nothing has a greater influence over your life than your thoughts rather they are negative or positive.
— Tasha Hoggatt
He wore the evidence of thinking all over his face, open and easy to read. Leah envied him that confidence to show what he was feeling.
— Lauren Dane, Taking Care of Business
His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.
— Richard Mitchell, Less Than Words Can Say
The thing with thoughts is that they die, like everything else. But almost everything else leaves a trace behind, even if it's a tiny carcass, some proof that it existed. Unless thoughts are spoken or written or sung or acted upon, there's no evidence that they were ever there.
— Adi Alsaid
The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.
— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
If the components of the body were organs and veins and cells, then the components of thought and language were words and grammar.
— John Burnside, The Dumb House
It was not the first time - it was far from the firs time - that Damask had suspected that there was something queer, something quite out of the ordinary about her mind. Most people had minds which dealt with one thought, and then another, one at a time. Hers very often dealt with two, even three, all at the same time."Damask Greenway from Afternoon of an Autocrat
— Norah Lofts, Afternoon of  an Autocrat
Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my dream.
— H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
We reflect the color of our thoughts
— Brent M. Jones
A decision is not an incident, it is result of hundreds of circumstances and thousands of thoughts.
— Mahrukh
Nurses came to his house to work with Morrie's withering legs.. bending them back and forth as if pumping water from a well.. He met with meditation teachers, and closed his eyes and narrowed his thoughts until his world shrunk down to a single breath, in and out, in and out.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
It's a wonderful thought that everyday has something to celebrate.
— Millie Florence, Honey Butter
Your body is made of two things: your will to do, your ego, and the physical form you have received from the prakriti, the nature. If the will to do is present within you, then the nature will go on providing you with an appropriate body. This is how you have been born again and again. Sometimes you were an animal, sometimes a bird, a tree some other time, and sometimes a man. Whatsoever you wished to achieve, it has happened. Your desire to achieve becomes the actuality; thoughts become real things. So beware when you desire, because all desires are fulfilled – sooner or later.If you are of the habit of watching the birds fly in the sky and wonder, ”How free the birds are, I wish I were a bird.” it will not be long before you become a bird. You see dogs mating, and if that moment a thought arises in you, ”What freedom! What happiness!” – soon you will become a dog. Whatever desire you keep within you, it becomes a seed.
— Osho, Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
Has it ever occurred to you that the last thought before your falling asleep at night becomes the first thought on waking up in the morning? All night long, while you remain asleep, the thought stays within you in a seed form. And so, that which is the last thing at night becomes first in the morning. At the moment of your death all your desires will come together and become a seed. That very seed will consequently be the new life in the womb. You start fresh from where you left off.Whatsoever you are is of your own making. Don’t blame others. As a matter of fact, there is no one whom you can blame. Basically it is the cumulative effect of your own actions. Whatsoever you are – beautiful or ugly, happy or unhappy, man or a woman – it is all a result of your actions. You are the architect of your life. Don’t blame on your stars – you’ll be simply fooling yourself. This way you are dumping the responsibility on to someone else.No need to say God has sent you – don’t dump the responsibility on God. That’s just a strategy to avoid your own responsibility. You alone are the cause for being imprisoned in this body. One who understands perfectly that he himself is responsible for being in this world, a transformation takes place in his life.
— Osho, Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
Thinking about what's beyond thought, is opening up your mind to tap into infinite intelligence designed to expand your consciousness.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
You own your feelings. You own your thoughts. You control both. No one has the right to any of it—to any of you without your permission.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Do not forget you mother, when she is old.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
She rebuked herself for this thought. /she was, she saw, always having thoughts for which she rebuked herself. It then flashed across her mind that the thoughts for which she rebuked herself selfom turned out to be other than shrewd and fruitful thoughts nand she rebuked herself for this as well.
— Patrick Hamilton, The Slaves of Solitude
I have layer upon layer of thoughts in my head and the bottom one has nothing to grip on to.
— Hanne Ørstavik, Like sant som jeg er virkelig
There is not, perhaps, a more painful exercise of the mind than that of treading, with weary and impatient pace, the entire round of thought, and arriving at the same conclusion for ever; then setting out again with increased speed and diminished strength, and again returning to the very same spot - of sending all our faculties on a voyage to discover, and seeing them all return empty, and watch the wrecks as they drift helplessly along, and sink before the eye that hailed their outward expedition with joy and confidence.
— Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale; Vol. III
People don't want to listen to their thoughts, so they fill the world with noise.
— Erin Entrada Kelly, Hello, Universe
In a moment everything could suddenly change, but God and His promises remain the same.
— Marie Moreton, Full and Overflowing: Poems, Thoughts and Photographs Inspired by God's Creation
Are my own thoughts bad?
— K. Weikel, Hiding Behind A Mask
If we occupy our minds with self-loathing or negative thoughts, then maybe we don’t have enough to do.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
Similar to a how a flower grows incrementally, people also blossom in stages. As we age, we expand our knowledge of how the world works and how other people respond to our deeds. We also expand our language skills in order to communicate both our thoughts and feelings.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
In the wind that ruffles through the treesI can find thoughts of you whispering to me
— Richard L.  Ratliff
All overt and covert emotions would shrivel without the beam of contrast and comparison to supply context and implication. We need the value of counterpoise to recognize and distinguish between similar and dissimilar concepts. How do we identify the importance of hope if we never felt despair? How do we appreciate the value of society and companionship until we experience solitude and loneliness? What would any relationship be unless draped with the boughs of thoughts and feelings, without the ongoing interaction between conscientious action and unreserved devotion, without endless empathy fused with boundless love? In the ring of time, without the verve supplied by both the real and the imaginary, life would be bland, insipid, and lackluster.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The hearts of everyone, the feeling is different Everyone in this world, the behavior is different The eyes are all the same.. But everyone's view is different.
— Sachin sawariya
His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep it blots out reality. You no longer see the objects around you, yet you can see the shapes in your mind as thought they are outside your body.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.
— Lou Andreas-Salomé
How come if people keep telling me I'm so smart, I keep doing such stupid things?
— George Watsky, How to Ruin Everything Deluxe: Essays
Becoming the opponent means you should put yourself in an opponent's place and think from the opponent's point of view.
— Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
You can only manage your thoughts, not your emotions. What are the emotions you're experiencing right now? What are the associated thoughts? Can you alter your thoughts? Practice! It's possible...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Each of these thoughts which you have chance to read from mein... came stages in my life.
— Deyth Banger
I am trying to ignore each of my thoughts and each of my stories and books... if I read them... they never sound well, but still we shouldn't go like...to do everything perfect and all perfect...
— Deyth Banger, All As None and More
I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...
— Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter
Another way to strengthen connection to intuition is to refuse to allow anyone to repress your vivid energies... that means your opinions, your thoughts, your ideas, your values, your morals, your ideals. There is very little right/wrong or good/bad in this world. There is, however, use and not useful.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Every emotion that we experience on a moment-by-moment basis has origin. The origin is a thought (s).
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Altering our distressing emotions is an uphill battle. When you experience undesirable emotional outburst, try to alter the thought behind.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
I think we would all agree that people should not be jailed for thoughts. But when, if ever, does a thought cross the line and become a crime?
— Gil Valle, Raw Deal: The Untold Story Of NYPD's "Cannibal Cop"
We develop our whole character from our thoughts, actions, attentive observations, and from the resolute pursuit of our inspirational dreams.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
She’s a sickness in my head.”Then get well.What you feel is self-made and attended to over time. You want to let go but are unwilling to let go because you are getting something from it; An escape? An excuse? Bondage?You are idealizing another person, building up the idea of them, and making them a legend in your own mind.Is it really a sickness or something you can control?The question is: do you even want to?Each time a thought creeps into your mind, you choose whether to give it freedom to remain or to wander. You can rebuke it or replace it. After all, it’s your mind.
— Donna Lynn Hope
The winter came with blossoms and the bees left their hive,The love was ephemeral when he became the prince charming,And the unbalanced promises couldn't take their stake
— J. Sarraf
I want to see, to know, to have, to be.
— Mary Ann Venancio
Keeping possibilities alive requires a consistency of thought and focus.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
The idea of one's normality is delusional fact of the reality.
— J. Limbu
Memories tell me who I was, not who I’ll become. They don’t fix the present any more than they fix the past.
— Caroline George, The Vestige
Integration arises from intimacy with our emotions and our bodies, as well as with our thoughts.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Solve your problems or your problems solve you.
— Mario Fingarov
Some situations feel worst in our life, but they are the best lessons for life.
— Saga Valsalan
Clear out your thoughts, don't believe everything you think,it might be a trap within
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
In time things thought impossible can be achieved.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
For a moment Carl tried to picture everything in his mind, and then it happened. Somewhere inside of him, where cause and effect were not weighted against each other, and where logic and explanations never challenged consciousness, in that place where thoughts could live freely and played out against each other - right there in that spot, things fell into place, and he understood how it all fitted together
— Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes
There are things we cannot vocalise because the repercussions of particular thoughts have the power to break lives.
— F.K. Preston
I don't know how this can be but it can: A painting is both exactly rhe same and entirely different every single time you look at it.
— Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
Mindfulness isn't about ridding yourself of thoughts. It's more about being aware and letting those thoughts pass through you, so you can see what if any value they have for you. Thoughts are an illusion but some of them are enlightening.
— Nanette Mathews
Just remember life is all an illusion.....it's your creation and you can dismantle it and re-create at will.
— Nanette Mathews
When the time is right, life will have a meaning.When the time is right, world will be bright again.When the time is right, things will fall into place.Just remember, never regret.
— Akash Lakhotia, World Hypnotized: Making of the Fuhrer
Every bonsaidreams of being a tall tree - until the wind blows
— Don Barnard
He is quick witted, yes! Astute big time & level headed in opinion. It is my firsthand judgment of a man.
— Parul Wadhwa
When our thoughts are unsettled and our inner world is in a muddle, we may sharpen our wits and try to recognize the invisible edges of our fractured stance. If we seek to figure out, what our life story is all about, we may be able to put the missing pieces in place and identify what is driving us, what we are actually up to and why we are running like mad dogs, sometimes. (“On a doggy day”)
— Erik Pevernagie
...I turned the music back on and reached to turn off my lamp, trying not to think about anything for a few minutes. That's always impossible, though. It's easier to stop breathing than it is to stop thinking.
— Robin Benway, Emmy & Oliver
I stayed in the town until early evening, and when the sun began to sink, my heart did too. This is your last chance to go back, I told myself. Once it gets completely dark, you might never be able to leave here. I went home on the same buses that had brought me there. I arrived before seven, and no one noticed that I had run away.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
I stayed in the town until earlyevening, and when the sun began to sink, my heart did too. This is your last chance to goback, I told myself. Once it gets completely dark, you might never be able to leave here. Iwent home on the same buses that had brought me there. I arrived before seven, and no onenoticed that I had run away.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
At least there is one book with which we all or few of us could have fun.
— Deyth Banger, 2 Hours
If you want to be tall to see the world better, have some high thoughts!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We inhabit an internal world that is subject to diversification. Every day we undergo personal transformation based upon experiences, thoughts, and feelings.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I am afraid to die, though,' I whispered to myself. These turned out to be my last words. They were not very impressive words, but it was too late to change them.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
A person must move beyond guilt and unexamined thoughts and motives in order to discover a purpose for living vibrantly.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Suddenly, as Avis clung to her father’s neck and ear while, with a casual arm, the man enveloped his lumpy and large offspring, I saw Lolita’s smile lose all its light and become a frozen little shadow of itself, and the fruit knife slipped off the table and struck her with its silver handle a freak blow on the ankle which made her gasp, and crouch head forward, and then, jumping on one leg, her face awful with the preparatory grimace which children hold till the tears gush, she was gone — to be followed at once and consoled in the kitchen by Avis who had such a wonderful fat pink dad and a small chubby brother, and a brand-new baby sister, and a home, and two grinning dogs, and Lolita had nothing.
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Life tends to deliver on what we order…so when you think I’m worthless, you get a life fitting what thought. When you think I’m fabulous…you get that.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
When you wake up every morning, let thanksgiving be your first thought.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
This had been happening more and more often: the two of us come upon each other by accident in the early hours of the morning and take solace in each others' company, weathering out the peril of being awake at this time of night, when thoughts that are neatly ordered or justly murdered during the day come loose from their moorings and out of their graves, to tie themselves to each other in new and dangerous ways.
— Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
And the cavern of fire was enormous, labyrinthine, that received the man. He branched and flamed, glowed and increased, and was suddenly extinguished in the little puffs of smoke and tired thoughts.
— Patrick White, The Tree Of Man
What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures.
— Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles
Life is a series of puzzles
—  all you have to do is solve the puzzles.
Always think in terms of solutions. Focusing on the problems usually gives us more of them.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
Nothing worth anything has ever proven itself to be easy. I should think you 'd have discovered this by now.
— Aria Beth Sloss, Autobiography of Us
Where you are now is the result of your previous overriding thoughts and actions. Tomorrow is still in the making so plant good seeds...
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
It isn't an easy business (...) Love, he said finally. I was referring to love, Rebecca.
— Aria Beth Sloss, Autobiography of Us
Think out of the box but stay in the yard.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Modern day information overload stops us sufficiently engaging with our thoughts.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
It takes effort and concern to really think about things.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
Either I shall find it, or I shall not find it. I examine my note-case. I look in all my pockets. These are the things that forever interrupt the process upon which I am eternally engaged of finding some perfect phrase that fits this moment exactly.
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
The character, therefore, will depend upon the thoughts. I am what I think. I am what I think even more than what I do, for it is the thought that interprets the action. An act in itself good may become even bad by the thought that inspired it.
— Basil W. Maturin, Self-Knowledge and Self-Discipline
What we do makes a difference and what we think about influences what we do.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
Does someone else care as much about you as I do?
— Maite
Get in the driving seat of your thoughts. You control them and they absolutely control your life.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
Our brains are like computers; it's our responsibility to programme them well, daily, and remove the viruses.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
I know very little with anything approaching certainty. I know that I was born, that I exist, and that I will die. For the most part, I can trust my brain's interpretation of the data presented to my senses: this is a rose, that is a car, she is my wife. I do not doubt the reality of the thoughts and emotions and impulses I experience in response to these things. . . . Yet apart from these primary perceptions, intuitions, inferences, and bits of information, the views that I hold about the things that really matter to me--meaning, truth, happiness, goodness, beauty--are finely woven tissues of belief and opinion.
— Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
Moments spent alone make us realize the value of our own thoughts. Value your solitude.
— Avijeet Das
Via self-talk we give our mind instructions on what we expect of ourselves and so behave accordingly. Change the instructions and we change the outcomes.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
Our emotions stem from our thoughts, redirect your thoughts to redirect your emotions.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
Identifying body language changes connected with the conversation in hand gives us insights into their thoughts and emotions.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
The evil and negative thoughts are the time bomb. Whenever that reaches its time, it goes to explode, damaging others, and even yourself. Defuse that, with your best, and positive thoughts, before it explodes.
— Ehsan Sehgal
I have to remind myself that I've always known this: Evolution is not for everybody.
— Daniel Pinkwater
Summer quiet thoughts on summer quiet noons.
— Ray Bradbury, Now and Forever
She has the most delicious thoughts about you, Tamlin,” he said. “She’s wondered about the feeling of your fingers on her thighs—between them, too.” He chuckled. Even as he said my most private thoughts, even as I burned with outrage and shame, I trembled at the grip still on my mind. Rhysand turned to the High Lord. “I’m curious: Why did she wonder if it would feel good to have you bite her breast the way you bit her neck?” “Let. Her. Go.” Tamlin’s face was twisted with such feral rage that it struck a different, deeper chord of terror in me. “If it’s any consolation,” Rhysand confided to him, “she would have been the one for you—and you might have gotten away with it. A bit late, though. She’s more stubborn than you are.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses