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The evil that is in Man comes of sluggish minds...for sluggards cannot think, and will not...Send upon us thy flames that we may be burnt of dead thoughts, even as we burn dead grass...make us see.
— Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
Don't want to think about it? No problem. Don't think about it.
— Bee Ridgway, The River of No Return
Universe is nothing, but human thought.
— Farid Huseynli
Only the power of light illuminates our thoughts and our being.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, From Poet's Hand
Thoughts are free, talk is cheap, and action is expensive. What's your worth?
— Noel DeJesus
Life is always uncertain. No one knows what's in there. But now my life is everywhere, I would just like to breathe and sleep and get all the rest I could. I wake up five in the morning some days just thinking about my own thoughts and stare blankly in thin air. Not sure what I am looking at but I know for a fact I am in my own world. Those times I am just inside my head just thinking about what is ahead.
— Happy Positivity Blankly Ahead
Poetry?"..."No, just thoughts, glimpses, things running through my head.
— Mary E. Pearson
Never are we as honest as at night, alone with thoughts and nightmares.
— Laura Lam, Shadowplay
Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.; beasts with insatiable appetites.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A destructive thought process exists within all of us, and we are plagued to varying degrees by an internal dialogue that is harmful, restrictive, and at its ultimate extreme, self-destructive.
— Lisa Firestone
The crisis is past and all is well, the sheep returns to the fold. We're all sheep who have strayed at times. Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning, we've cried. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts, we've shouted to ourselves.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
It's easier to ignore all the bad shit in the light. Distract yourself with work and TV and other people. The dark is just... bad memories. Bad dreams. I don't like to be left alone with all that.
— Ruthie Knox, How to Misbehave
Fear is an abortion of good thoughts
— Nomthandazo Tsembeni
Always try to be perceptive and observant in living, sensatory for details and diversity. Always try to see beyond the surface, and look in another perspective. Always try not to judge. Always seeks new experience, embrace and took chances. To live life maximally and develop into a better person.
— Nin
The most significant way you can edify another person is to see them accurately as the same as you, listen to them, and honor their right to their own thoughts and feelings.
— Kimberly Giles, Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness
Sometimes. it is not the person that you miss, but the memories that you made.
— S.M.T.
A robin perched on the branch of the apple tree, his feathers ruffled, his red chest blazing.'No need to look so down in the mouth,' he chirruped. 'Things'll get worse before they get better.''I don't know what it is about that tree,' Geno grumbled, 'that makes everything that sits in it talk in proverbs.''It's easier than thinking,' the robin stated.
— Felix Salten, Bambi's Children
If our thoughts can change our actions, reverse is also possible. Our Actions can Change Our Thoughts!
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open The Windows: To the World around You
It will, It had, It is happening, depending on how you think and react about it.
— Savan Solanki
Enriched vocabularies someone had (and used) are produced by a boundless wondrous mind. Sometime with a non mediocre experience also.
— Nin
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death.
— Bertrand Russell
Life isn't about just talking, it's about thinking too.
— Marie Symeou
Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside that you didn't dare let them escape, in case they blew you wide open?
— Ellen Hopkins, Crank
Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel brain" are given over to one thought:
— Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Not every thought needs to be voiced
— Hyrum A Yeakley
Music gives inspiration...one that sounds windy with humming sound, such can put you in a trance, only to come back and discover some witty ideas.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
When you look at another person, see them as an extension of your thought or feeling. What you two thought or felt THEN, magnetically connected you two NOW.
— Franklin Gillette
The same way that a tiny thought in our childhood can manifest thirty years later as an anxiety disorder, one tiny thought right now can manifest just six months from now as unconditional love and unshakable happiness.
— Vironika Tugaleva
The girl and Doctor Reefy began their courtship on a summer afternoon. He was forty-five then and already he had begun the practice of filling his pockets with the scraps of paper that became hard balls and were thrown away. The habit had been formed as he sat in his buggy behind the jaded white horse and went slowly along country roads. On the papers were written thoughts, ends of thoughts, beginnings of thoughts.One by one the mind of Doctor Reefy had made the thoughts. Out of many of them he formed a truth that arose gigantic in his mind. The truth clouded the world. It became terrible and then faded away and the little thoughts began again.("Paper Pills")
— Sherwood Anderson, Short Shorts
I don’t always do what I say but if you want to follow my actions, be my guest. You can do what I do and fail, or you can do what I say and move on with your life. It’s your choice.
— Nicketa Gomes
Clarity of your thoughts makes your actions precise :-) Whenever you feel your actions are not appropriate, watch out your thoughts... :-)
— Raj Vanjara
External sources of positive energy and motivation will exhaust, unless we have our captive generation of positive energy.The only sustainable source of positive energy is our thoughts.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open The Windows: To the World around You
What appears in your life everyday is the result of what you have previously thought or felt. The speed that your thoughts and feelings appear in your life depends on how much you believe it to be true.
— Franklin Gillette
A quote is not a conversation, but an invitation to change your perspective.
— Shannon L. Alder
My brain is so busy with Nick thoughts, it’s a swarm inside my head: Nicknicknicknicknick! And when I picture his mind, I hear my name as a shy crystal ping that occurs once, maybe twice, a day and quickly subsides. I just wish he thought about me as much as I do him.Is that wrong? I don’t even know anymore.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
What was after the universe?Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?
— James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must have forgotten all about me, perhaps for some considerable time, and that he himself was so lost in the labyrinth of his own unquiet thoughts that I did not exist.
— Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Oblivion is the place where all my best thoughts reside or I must say hide.
— Shreya Gupta
Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent—admittedly in my own best interest—on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.
— Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
People say I have created things. I have never created anything. I get impressions from the Universe at large and work them out, but I am only a plate on a record or a receiving apparatus — what you will. Thoughts are really impressions that we get from outside.
— Larry Dossey, One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters
The carved stone sign in front read Building C.Imaginative title, Langdon thought
— Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you.
— Lee J. Colan
The mind complex is that portion of the individual being which reflects (like a mirror) the in-pourings of the spirit and the up-pourings of the light body complex. It is where we experience the thoughts, instincts, feelings, emotions, awareness, etc.
— Thomas Vazhakunnathu, God Does Not Roll Dice
Character builds on characters. Very few recognised them as a character, others should look for it until they get one.
— Vikram Roy
Character builds on characters. Very few can recognised them as a character, others should look for it until they get one.
— Vikram Roy
Some thoughts are like old piece of belongings that need to be disposed to move on.
— Richmond Akhigbe
You bothered yourself and changed the season. I was left behind with your awful sounds.
— Cat Alonso
The leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some diseased.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
It's easy to get lost in our own heads. It's easy to allow the thoughts and worries and plans and hopes to take on their own lives and control our minds in such a way that we lose sight of all that's around us in any given moment. It's difficult to allow those thoughts and problems to take a back seat in our lives in order to be completely aware of what's right here, right now. Perhaps there's a person who really could use you to take a couple of moments to pay attention to him or her; perhaps there's a cool autumn breeze that's going to calm your spirit with its amazing touch--but only if you actually notice it.
— Tom Walsh
Our every action has consequences. Thoughts have consequences. Since actions start from thoughts I guess I can say technically that thoughts in general have consequences. In our thoughts we make dreams. So if I think I can do it, then my actions will be "I CAN" and I am able to do it. So the result or the consequence will be "I did it!".
— Diana Rose Morcilla
Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie.(There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.)
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what's called a memory trace. With each repetition the trace goes deeper and deeper, forming and embedding a pattern of thought. When an emotion is tied to this thought pattern, the memory trace grows exponentially stronger.
— Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions
But there's a sacredness which is not of thought, nor of a feeling resuscitated by thought. It is not recognizable by thought nor can it be utilized by thought. Thought cannot formulate it. But there's a sacredness, untouched by any symbol or word. It is not communicable. It is a fact.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Krishnamurtis Notebook
As I think of myself, so I shall be.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
If someone asked you what color the sky is, what would you say?
— Shey Stahl
He meticulously tries to get every hair in place. He tilts his head to look at himself from different angles, like there's some magic perspective in the mirror that could change the dimensions of his face'-Olivia/Via thinking
— R.J. Palacio, Wonder
Culture has little to do with how refined a man's intellect is
—  it rather depends on the refinement of his emotions.
Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thought about. It was not necessarily more profound, but there was a struggle going on inside me to find some sort of creative or spiritual or aesthetic way of seeing the world and organizing it in my head.
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
When you are wronged and your heart and feelings are hardened, do not be distressed, for this has happened providentially; but be glad and reject the thoughts that arise within you, knowing that if they are destroyed at the stage when they are only provocations, their evil consequences will be cut off, whereas if the thoughts persist the evil may be expected to develop.
— St. Mark the Ascetic
I am neither a philosopher nor a thinker, but simply follower of my own thoughts.
— M.F. Moonzajer
The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
— Émile Zola
Old Scully, who according to Jennifer, hadn't the imagination to think the worst. Something she said once, as though neurosis was an artform.
— Tim Winton, The Riders
Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that is centred upon ourselves.
— Raheel Farooq
Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.
— Søren Kierkegaard
If we could be seen thinking, we would show blown bright one moment, dark the next, like embers; subject to every passing word and thought of our own or other people's, mostly other people's.
— Dorothy Whipple
I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts. What are you thinking, Amy?
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
The eyes of others my our prisons
— their thoughts our cages.
If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life--whether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's yours.
— Don Roff
Positive thoughts multiply, They bring their own images of joy Which erase dark shadows, Bring happiness.
— Balroop Singh
Just jump, make that call, take the next step and say NO, I'm done, that's it! As long as you entertain fearful thoughts, you’ll continue to feel the pain. So, just take some kind of action now. Even if you feel that fear while you’re taking action, have faith and just keep going. I guarantee you’ll break through the fear and you’ll realize how easy it was….
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes Companion Journal
The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Thoughts are king, Trixie, king!
— Tiffanie DeBartolo, God-Shaped Hole
Music could do that, create a magical oasis where nothing else mattered except hearing the next line of the score.
— Elizabeth Camden, The Lady of Bolton Hill
To be perfectly honest, it scared me a little. You get so used to seeing the same thing in the mirror every day you stop thinking about what you look like.
— Cat Clarke, Undone
So many people have the TV or radio constantly turned on "for company," or spend their time reading trashy novels, aimlessly surfing the Net, and so on. Then suddenly one day you are old or sick and you realize you have done nothing with your life. All your thoughts are other people's thoughts and you have no idea who you really are or what the purpose of your life might be.
— Karen Kingston, Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui
With her mouth closed, her mind screamed.
— Julia Charlo
Keep your heart and mind open, Taylor. Don't make any rash decisions that you might regret later on. Sometimes things in life aren't as clear as we would like them to be, especially in the beginning. When the time is right, you'll know it. Just don't burn the bridge before you ever get the chance to cross it.
— Rose Wynters, My Wolf Protector
Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence comes when you leave thoughts of imposibilities behind and live by the focus of faith and hope in the face of difficulty.
— Israelmore Ayivor
The time we need in order to heal our wounds and finally manifest our deepest dreams is only as long as the gap between two thoughts. These are thoughts in polarity, such as separation and unity, conflict and peace, misery and joy, hate and love, etc. Since as human beings we are all capable of experiencing both thoughts, the only skill we need to develop involves mastering the GAP.
— Franco Santoro
Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
For every guy who loves being a dad, there’s another who realizes too late that he’s created something his wife loves more than him.
— Mark R. Brand, Long Live Us
Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!
— Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.
— Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year
I think so muchmay be it never endswhen this night endsthere's another at handI sleep with oneand wake with onewith everything else onthis life goes on.
— Jyoti Mishra
Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.
— Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.
— E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
We mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.
— Irene Hunt, Across Five Aprils
She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were her own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and they they concerned no one but herself.
— Kate Chopin, The Awakening
I have been known to think outside of all rules. Even my own.
— Ashly Lorenzana
It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.
— Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
You have the choice of deliberately directing your thinking, or allowing other forces to dictate your desires and attitudes.
— Grant Von Harrison, Drawing on the Powers of Heaven
I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, undermined, then gone.
— Abigail Tarttelin, Golden Boy
Beauvoir left their home wanting to call his wife and tell her how much he loved her, and then tell her what he believed in, and his fears and hopes and disappointments. To talk about something real and meaningful. He dialed his cell phone and got her. But the words got caught somewhere south of his throat. Instead he told her the weather had cleared, and she told him about the movie she'd rented. Then they both hung up.
— Louise Penny, Still Life
My job is not to worry about what everyone else thinks about me but to discover what I think. If I actually want to know what someone else thinks, my job is then to ask that person. More often than not, however, it isn’t important to know. It’s okay if people are mad at me, and it’s okay if people think I’m a complete idiot—as long as I’m doing my best. Just because certain people might have judgments about me, it does not mean they have authority over me. To truly form my own life, I had to ask questions like ‘What are my needs? And ‘What are my thoughts?’ I had to acknowledge both my strengths and my weaknesses. I had to form my own opinions based on my reality instead of someone else’s.
— Jenni Schaefer, Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
Thoughts, quotes, and philosophies—good or bad—cause us to evaluate ourselves. And that is good.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state.Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little.Feeling is frightening.
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.
— Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
Our thoughts are just a story our mind tell us.
— Romina Avila
How do I tell her that all I want to do is roll around on my bed?
— Jolene Perry, Night Sky
Why do I go outside at one a.m.and search the stars as though I'd numbered them?
— Gail White
Well they have to have something to wean Caluntians off Venusian moles. Seems humans are the best therapy, to consume that is. They say we are a bit gamey though. An acquired taste, one we hope not many acquire.
— Neil Leckman
It's dangerous because my thoughts get away from themselves. Mixed with emotion, they pile up like the garbage that surrounds me. They stack layer upon layer, deeper and deeper, month after month- crushing, festering, smoldering. One day something is certain to combust.
— Camron Wright, The Rent Collector
Dale, a Plutonian Dreg Bug, the kind with seventeen eyes and a bad temper, got nailed in one of his eyes by a wild dart. Fight broke out when he punched Earl in the nose. Earl’s nose is very sensitive, hell it’s how he sees, sort of. Earl plopped down on the floor crying when a Flying Mugwhap flew over and ate Dale’s eye. Dale grabbed the Mugwhap and squeezed a good deal of the life out of it before the bouncer stopped him. Karen, the bouncer, is a reticulated Hive Mother, and a mean mother when she’s pissed off. She walked over and flicked Dale upside his head. That flick knocked Dale out cold, and cost him two more eyes when he hit the wall. She helped Earl up and bought him a drink. A nasty drink by all the comments I’ve heard. Something between varnish and the stuff people get in the corners of their mouths with a nice aftertaste of silver polish. Earl seemed to like it though.
— Neil Leckman
There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.
— Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness
Once the rain starts falling it's hard to tell it to stop...
— Samantha Young, On Dublin Street
Why was it that thoughts and plans always made more sense when confined to one's mind than when they exited one's mouth?
— Karen Witemeyer, Stealing the Preacher
One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The minute you say, "My memory isn't what it used to be ..." you are actually training your brain to live up to your diminished expectations.Low expectations mean low results.The first rule of super brain is that your brain is always eavesdropping on your thoughts. As it listens, it leans. If you teach it about limitation, your brain will become limited. But what if you do the opposite? What if you teach your brain to be unlimited?
— Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being
Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
— Edith Hamilton, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall.
— Rebecca Donovan, Reason to Breathe
Do you think peace of mind can be found in holding a grudge… or harboring resentment… or wallowing in thoughts of what could have been? Me neither.
— Steve Maraboli
Do all people have that? A face, a phrase, a landscape, an air bubble from the past suddenly floating up as if released by the head warden's child from a cell in the brain while the mind is at work on some totally different matter? Something of the sort also occurs just before falling asleep when what you think you are thinking is not at all what you think. Or two parallel passenger trains of thought, one overtaking the other.
— Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister
Over-analysis is a dream killer. Sometimes you can drown yourself in your own thoughts.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
My thoughts are free to roam back to the way she leaned her head on my arm for a split second, as if wishing she could let herself go, let herself lean farther. But she didn't, and I can’t help but respect her for that, even I know her strength is false, propped up by the shaky girders of Old Man Jack. One day soon, those girders will collapse, and her world will crumble, and I know I have to be there when that happens.
— Jasinda Wilder, Falling into You
Your thoughts are transparent.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars
Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.
— Boyd K. Packer
I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.
— Georges Duhamel, Scènes de la vie future
When we’re not true to our thoughts and not true to the feelings we have deep inside, we find ourselves unhappy. Be courageous enough to align your life with your feelings, desires, and sense of purpose.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Busy days galore...thoughts in a kaleidoscope of dervish dances.
— Al Cash
There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.
— Joel S. Manuel
Ideas and thoughts are like genes...more you keep inside yourself more it multply with same species consuming your whole energy to breed to produce same old ideas and thoughts again and again until it kills you. So, let it be interact with other species..take it out...make reaction with other peoples's thoughts and ideas and produce something new....produce new energy..new thoughts..new perceptions...
— Jagdish Poudel
Raven had been shunned and abandoned throughout his life. Friends often came and went without a word or worse, they toyed with his emotions and shared his secrets with those he chose to distrust. His loneliness was inevitable and his secrets were damaging enough. Through all of his largely brief but emotionally involved friendships and infatuations, the depression and the darkness of his past, there had been one place to which he could go for solitude—either in thought or in person—and he never shared the knowledge of its existence or its secrets with anyone. That place dwelled within him even all of these years since the summer when he was nine and all that could ever have gone wrong, did.
— Amanda M. Lyons, Eyes Like Blue Fire
My brain as the engine, with thoughts trailing to the caboose, on a one-track mind we keep going forward.
— Anthony Liccione
Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
Inside me are the real things that give me strength—my thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some polished from frequent turning, some new and rough, some that cut.
— Ally Condie, Reached
In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.
— Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
...finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.
— Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers
You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars
...my heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide from me...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
When there's a monster under your bed sometimes it really is best not to look.
— Jocelynn Drake, Angel's Ink
We left. We did not say: Don't drive, You're drunk. We did not say: We aren't letting you in that car when you are upset. We did not say: We insist on going with you. We did not say: This can wait until tomorrow. Anything-everything-can wait.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
...she was probably having a few murderous thoughts of her own about any woman that touched him. Good, they were making progress.
— R.L. Mathewson, Tall, Dark & Heartless
Silencing the brain's ramblings gives the chance for wonderful thoughts to bloom.
— Steven Redhead, The Solution
I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
I thought: We are not close enough.  I though: He will not hear it.  I thought: He will hear it and be out so fast that we will have no chance.  I thought: Twenty seconds. I was breathing hard and fast.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
I thought: This is not good.  I though: I am not bad at kissing. Not at bad at all.  I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
I thought: We are not close enough.  I thought: He will not hear it.  I thought: He will hear it and be out so fast that we will have no chance.  I thought: Twenty seconds. I was breathing hard ans fast.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Far in the back of her mind she was thinking. But she could not dredge up these half-formed feelings, these obscure bits of ideas, into clear, definite thoughts. . . . Her mind ticked away, singing a song she could not decipher.
— Helen Wells, Cherry Ames, Veterans' Nurse
Unfortunately, nothing can protect you from the thoughts in your own head.
— Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
...all kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull ...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
You can think all you can but don't publicize all your thoughts
— Bernard Kelvin Clive, EnjoyLife 360 - Simple Secrets to a Happier Fulfilling Life!
From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order...
— Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
Mostly, when Jess didn't want to talk about her ideas in class, Colleen thought that Jess was showing off, making sure that she would be coaxed and pleaded with, but how could Jess have explained in a coherent way that she was scared? Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holding them up to the light and killing them, yes, killing them, because thoughts are supposed to stay and grow in quiet, dark places, like butterflies in cocoons.
— Helen Oyeyemi
I’ve got something so lovely to think about that I’d like to go back and sit down in the garden, and just think and think until dark without being interrupted by anybody.
— Annie Fellows Johnston, The Gate of the Giant Scissors
Point of view." I never got that phrase, point of view; doesn’t everyone have a point in their view? If not thenthey don’t have a view on a certain topic they are just indifferent. Anyone who has a view certainly cares enough to have apoint!
— CV
Love does whatever it does, whenever it wants to do it.
— Camile Souza
...Heracles was strangely silent. What is he thinking? / Geryon wondered. / Geryon watched prehistoric rocks move past the car and thought about thoughts. / Even when they were lovers / he had never known what Herakles was thinking. Once in a while he would say, / Penny for your thoughts! / and it always turned out to be some odd thing like a bumper sticker or a dish / he'd eaten in a Chinese restaurant years ago. / What Geryon was thinking Herakles never asked. In the space between them / developed a dangerous cloud.
— Anne Carson
A single thought, he considered, could do all sorts of harm. Harm to what, he wasn't sure, but he identified it as harm.
— Adam P. Knave, Stays Crunchy in Milk
I had been brought up to be something of an intellectual, but there seemed at the time no connection between my newly formed ideas and the world to which I had returned. Indeed, I did not even recognize my ideas as ideas at all: they seemed to be culled from somewhere else and did not belong to me. I did not know then what I am just beginning to know now: that my ideas were indeed mine, that I had reacted and changed and moved, that I had already analyzed and synthesized, rejecting some thoughts, adopting others, putting yet others away for a while to be thought on. I did not recognize how mentally active an individual I had become, already divorced from the world through my own thoughts, my own perceptions of right and wrong, of honour and justice, of what mattered and what did not. (2007: 117)
— Jean Said Makdisi
What you can't comprehend within your thoughts will be impossible to make real within your world.
— Steven Redhead, The Solution
I urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your thoughts and your feelings. Follow them through and you will grow with them.
— J.M. Coetzee, Slow Man
A wonderful privilege it was to be thus admitted into the soul of a man of genius, to be allowed to share the ecstasies and the agonies of his inmost life.
— Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
(Parentheses speakMore than we dare say out loudWhy, oh, why is that?)
— Megan McCafferty, Perfect Fifths
A mind is not weighed by its magnitude, but by the dimensions of its thoughts.
— Anthony Liccione
A deeper thought on the surface is exactly the paradox we need.
— Nema Al-Araby
Too bad children don't know how profound their thoughts are.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?
— Mason Cooley
Your thoughts do not create reality. They either permit it or they do not.
— Alan Cohen
Not every thought is a candle! Some thoughts can make the world darker!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.
— Alan Cohen
Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say ‘I think’ we don't leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
The most abundant and most precious of things: Thoughts and Dreams, can be found in every corner yet as precious as diamonds.
— StridingDream
There are tumults of the mind, when, like the great convulsions of Nature, all seems anarchy and returning chaos; yet often, in those moments of vast disturbance, as in the strife of Nature itself, some new principle of order, or some new impulse of conduct, develops itself, and controls, and regulates, and brings to an harmonious consequence, passions and elements which seem only to threaten despair and subversion.
— William Gibson
Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
He was dazed, the soft thoughts sinking slowly in. A son. Even a daughter. His child. Immortality. A chance to make good. Pass on the hard lessons learned.
— Helen Hodgman, Jack and Jill
Sometimes I feel that our bright blue sky is like a pregnant women’s belly.
— Santosh Kalwar
My thoughts are wing'd with hopes,My hopes with love.Thoughts, hopes and love return to me no more,Until Cynthia shine as she hath done before.
— Eve Edwards
Everyone has their opinion and everyone loves it. Nobody wants to accepts others opinion. So to make them happy be diplomatic and speak unclearly, let them interpret your thoughts by themselves, let them think what they want to think
— Jagdish Poudel
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.
— Eugene V. Debs
If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.
— Steve Martin
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
— Pablo Picasso
We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to shit. You think anyone in Rwanda's got a fucking lactose intolerance?!
— Chris Rock
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool 
— Seneca, Moral Essays: Volume I De Providentia. De Constantia. De Ira. De Clementia
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.
— George Monbiot
That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
— G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men
I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
— Oprah Winfrey
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.
— Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World
If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.
— T. Harv Eker
When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity.
— Wayne W. Dyer
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
— Edmund Burke
No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.
— Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World
1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.
— Mark Bittman, Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes
When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest. If our own life is luxurious and wasteful, we can't approach poor people. If we love people, we want to identify with them and share with them.
— Jean Vanier, Community And Growth
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
— Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
— Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it. And now I know it, I know it not only because I remember hearing it, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach. And it is good for me to know it!
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.
— Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief
A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It has ceased to grow in love. A community is alive when it is poor and its members feel they have to work together and remain united, if only to ensure that they can all eat tomorrow!
— Jean Vanier, Community And Growth
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
— Thomas Sowell
One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
— Thomas More
If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
— Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!
— John Wesley
...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.
— Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
There are just three things that you can do with Money: save, give, or invest. Somehow in here in America, with all our creativity, we have invented a fourth use for money: we can squander it
— Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.
— Lucy Parsons, Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity - Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.
— P.T. Barnum
...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion and community. Now people live more or less on their own in a small house, jealously guarding their goods and planning to acquire more, with a notice on the gate that says, 'Beware of the Dog.
— Jean Vanier, Community And Growth
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. 
— John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us. With enough plain food to satisfy my small appetite, a room to myself, books from a public library, pens and paper, I should regret nothing.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up
If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich
— Charles Wagner, The Simple Life
The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose,' he said. 'The rich cannot afford to be.
— M.R.C. Kasasian, The Mangle Street Murders
The size of the problem is never the issue -- what matters is the size of you!
— T. Harv Eker
Why should we labor this unpleasant point? Because the Book of Mormon labors it, for our special benefit. Wealth is a jealous master who will not be served halfheartedly and will suffer no rival--not even God: "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." (Matthew 6:24) In return for unquestioning obedience wealth promises security, power, position, and honors, in fact anything in this world. Above all, the Nephites like the Romans saw in it a mark of superiority and would do anything to get hold of it, for to them "money answereth all things." (Ecclesiastes 10:19) "Ye do always remember your riches," cried Samuel the Lamanite, ". . .unto great swelling, envyings, strifes, malice, persecutions, and murders, and all manner of iniquities." (Helaman 13:22) Along with this, of course, everyone dresses in the height of fashion, the main point being always that the proper clothes are expensive--the expression "costly apparel" occurs 14 times in the Book of Mormon. The more important wealth is, the less important it is how one gets it.
— Hugh Nibley, Since Cumorah
Your income can grow only to the extent that you do.
— T. Harv Eker
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
— Ted Morgan
To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And in order to increase this heap of gold, one must be inflexible, a usurer, thief, extortionist, and murderer! And one must especially mistreat the small and the weak!And when this mountain of gold has been amassed, one can climb up on it, and from up on the summit, a smile on one’s lips, one can contemplate the valley of poor wretches that one has created.
— Petrus Borel, Champavert, le lycanthrope
They are but beggars that can count their worth.
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. 
— Samuel Johnson
There are only 2 paths to happiness in life. Utter Stupidity or Exceptional Wealth.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics