Top 1200 Mind And Thoughts Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

What kind of thoughts make you feel good? Thoughts of love, appreciation, gratitude, joyful childhood experiences? Thoughts in which you rejoice that you're alive and bless your body with love? Do you truly enjoy this present moment and get excited about tomorrow? Thinking these kinds of thoughts is an act of loving yourself, and loving yourself creates miracles in your life.

You can build radiant health, success and happiness by the thoughts you think in the hidden studio of your mind.

A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you.

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

During any moment in which you're experiencing thoughts that make you feel sick or bad, do your best to change them to thoughts that support the idea of feeling good. Refuse to talk about disease, and work to activate thoughts that predict recovery and overall well-being.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.

Right underneath your thoughts and negative emotions exists an ocean of love. You have but to quiet the mind to experience it.

What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free.

No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them.

Psychologists tell us we think 50,000 thoughts a day...between 1,000 and 5,000 thoughts in a single hour. Many of those thoughts are about ourselves and about our performance, about our lovability, our capability and our significance. So the key is to control those thoughts, making certain they're always positive.

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions.

If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing.

Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.

In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.

in mad people fear goes on constantly, night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.

Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.

I like "Training Day" very much. Denzel Washington's performance was spectacular. I also like "The Godfather"and "Kill Bill." I love Tarantino's mind and I believe that "Kill Bill" describes very well his mind and thoughts.

When a rainbow appears vividly in the sky, you can see its beautiful colors, yet you could not wear as clothing or put it on as an ornament. It arises through the conjunction of various factors, but there is nothing about it that can be grasped. Likewise, thoughts that arise in the mind have no tangible existence or intrinsic solidity. There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave.

If the mind is calm, your spontaneity and honest thoughts appear. You become more spontaneous.

My ma used to say that crying is good for you. Tears are the path that free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.

And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.

By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.

Manage your mind. When we direct our thoughts and words toward the outcome we most desire, we ignite grace.

Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.

Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good thoughts, happy thoughts, and constructive thoughts.

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

The physical universe that you see is all in your mind. When you turn your mind off, or become unconscious, the physical universe, for you, disappears. Then, when you awaken your consciousness, the universe reappears magically. Quite simple really - no thoughts on your part, no physical world. As Walt Whitman succinctly stated: "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You." Without your mind to process it, the universe simply disappears into nothingness.

You'll always face problems. When you experience hard times, immerse your mind in God thoughts. Turn a deaf ear to doubters. Set your mind on a holy cause. Once you find your mountain, no giant will stop you, no age will disqualify you, and no problem will defeat you.

If the mind is illumined, there is clear blue sky in a dark room. If the thoughts are muddled, there are malevolent ghosts in broad daylight.

As long as we hold unforgivable thoughts in our mind, we will not be able to experience total inner peace.

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life is thus centered not in reality itself but in his ideas of it. By focusing the mind wholly on each objects and every action, zazen strips it of extraneous thoughts and allows us to enter into a full rapport with life.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

It is one thing to be delivered from bad thoughts, and another to be freed from the passions. Often people are delivered from thoughts, when they do not have before their eyes those things which produce passion. But the passions for them remain hidden in the soul, and when the things appear again the passions are revealed. Therefore it is necessary to guard the mind when these things appear, and to know toward which things you have a passion.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

You will resemble, tomorrow, the DOMINATING THOUGHTS that you keep alive in your mind today!

I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with our will. It is strange to realize that even our own thoughts pass by like scenery out the window of a bus, a bus we took by accident while trying to get somewhere else. Most of the time, thinking is an autonomous process, something that happens outside of our control. This perception of machine-like quality of the self is something many people discover, then try to overcome, through meditation.

Most of us are reflecting life and not affecting it. Your inner speech mirrors your mind, and your mind mirrors God. If you do not change your thoughts, you haven't changed their activity. And if you do not change their activity, the conditions of your life cannot change, for they are only bearing witness to the inner action of your mind.

When you listen to what entities say, the gradually work their way into your thoughts. After a while you will start thinking their thoughts. You won't know they aren't your thoughts. Soon you will be fully possessed.

If your mind is anything like mine, it can stumble through a half-dozen different thoughts in a heartbeat.

You don't want to block your thoughts, emotions, and so on; nor do you want to chase after them. If you chase after them, if you let them lead you, they begin to define you, and you lose your ability to respond openly and spontaneously in the present moment. On the other hand, if you attempt to block your thoughts, your mind can become quite tight and small.

I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture.

Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.

When I turned 16, I thought I was a man. I needed the money. When you don't have it, crazy thoughts go through your mind.

You burn the paper, but not the words. You silence the words, but not the thoughts. You kill the thoughts only if you kill the man. And you will find that his thoughts rise again in the minds of others - twice as strong as before.

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Thich Nhat Hanh If you gathered up all the fearful thoughts that exist in the mind of the average person, looked at them objectively, and tried to decide just how much good they provided that person, you would see that not some but all fearful thoughts are useless. They do no good. Zero. They interfere with dreams, hopes, desire and progress.

If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease

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.