My Thoughts Quotes

Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.

I do not have to be high to be great. I do not have to be drunk to have a good idea. I can sit with my thoughts and not feel crazy. I can do it... I can do it without the dope.

My heart goes out to the people of the city of Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in such a senseless and heartless way.

Our hearts are the shrine; that is where God should be installed. Our good thoughts are the flowers to worship Him. Good deeds form the worship, good words form the hymns and love forms the offering.

When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it... You've got to replace it with a positive thought.

Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.

For me it's very important to express my thoughts, the pictures I carry inside of me, maybe because it's important to get them out.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor

A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain.

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.

Creating means living.

Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.

If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?

Nothing is part of everything.

What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?

It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.

Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.

Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.

Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

Those who hate rain hate life.

Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.

Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.

Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings.

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.

I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

My thoughts took frantic flight, wanting to escape this prison, and seek out the wind so it could fan my hair and sting my skin, and make me feel alive again.