Top 1200 Conflicting Thoughts Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you think thoughts, they are sent out into the Universe, and they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency. Everything sent out returns to the source - you.

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

What your child wants and what you know is right for them can be very conflicting at times.

When we wake up to the fact that our thoughts touch the people we are thinking about, we are again asked to choose which thoughts we send out. If we send out the thoughts of the heart, we can heal, even if the person who needs healing is far away.

Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.

In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your endeavors, and think well of the endeavors of others.

We are sending out thoughts of greater or less intensity all the time, and we are reaping the results of such thoughts. Not only do our thought-waves influence ourselves and others, but they have a drawing power - they attract to us the thoughts of others, things, circumstances, people, 'luck', in accord with the character of the thought uppermost in our minds.

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

Your life is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great... Think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and do not allow any contradictory thoughts to take root.

He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

The Best Thoughts are often those which are spoken without giving any thoughts.

More and more, I have come to realize how thoughts and concepts are all that block us from always being . . . in the absolute. . . . When the view is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. . . . You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa.

Beautify your thoughts. Thoughts are the headwaters of action, life and manifestation.

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.

Happier thoughts lead to essentially a happier biochemistry. A happier, healthier body. Negative thoughts and stress have been shown to seriously degrade the body and the functioning of the brain, because it's our thoughts and emotions that are continuously reassembling, reorganizing, re-creating our body

But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. They can be a powerful influence for good when they're on the positive side, and they can and do make you physically ill when they're on the negative side. I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts! Let me tell you, junk thoughts can destroy you even more quickly than junk food. Junk thoughts are something to be wary of.

What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on? You are in charge of your thoughts and feelings. If you are willing to search for the reason that you can't let go of disturbing thoughts, you can learn about yourself and restore your own peace of mind.

Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.

Don't hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the start, is beyond thought, so that no matter what, you never get involved with thoughts. Illuminate original mind, and no other understanding is necessary.

On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns.

As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story.

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.

Replace those thoughts of worry with thoughts of hope, faith, and victory.

I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence

That which is revealed when thoughts are absent is also here when thoughts are present.

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

Thoughts may come and persist in staying. But thoughts that are not put into word or action die unborn!

If somebody did a new show that, within a family, had conflicting political views, that would be great.

For me, politics is personal because it's my family, and just being aware of my thoughts - are my thoughts productive?

Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And too long her thoughts had felt Their strength. So when the man drew near, Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. Poor Maria! Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, For now she's alone again and all in pain; She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay To trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day.

Thoughts come and go. It's impossible to stop your thoughts, but the idea is that the thoughts are kind of like waves on the ocean. That's Jon Kabat-Zinn's big analogy and that this is actually kind of diving under the waves. And you know it's kind of interesting.

All thoughts are just junk. Essentially, they are coming from the limited experience of past. These thoughts are useful for your survival process. You've picked up some amount of information; you want to survive in the world; this information is useful. If you're looking at life itself, these thoughts are meaningless.

So, how do you get back to heaven? To begin with, just notice the thoughts that take you away from it. You don't have to believe everything your thoughts tell you. Just become familiar with the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness. It may seem strange at first to get to know yourself in this way, but becoming familiar with your stressful thoughts will show you the way home to everything you need.

I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.

I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

I hope that others can turn their negative thoughts into positive thoughts and improve their own lives.

I think my most shameful thoughts are the things people relate to the most, because everyone has questionable thoughts sometimes, and it's easy to feel incredibly alienated and lonely when you feel like nobody else is having those thoughts too.

The woods were made for the hunters of dreams, The brooks for the fisher of song; To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game The streams and the woods belong. There are thoughts that moan from the soul of the pine And thoughts in a flower-bell curled; And the thoughts that are blown with the scent of the fern Are as new and as old as the world.

She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.

Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.

If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I’d choose to have?