Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.

… A nightmare is something you awaken from, Peter,” she had said. “But thoughts and ideas that remain after its terrors have disappeared are something considerably worse.

Where the mind goes the man follows.

I talked a lot in my car. Thousands of words and songs and swears are absorbed in its fabric, just like the orange juice I spilled on my way to the dentist. It knows what...

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

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...

If you want people to enter your world, you don’t need to invite them; just keep your door open and keep your thoughts plain!

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...

Our inner experience is that which we think, feel, remember, perceive, sense, decide, plan and predict. These experiences are actually mental actions, or mental activity (Van der Hart et al., 2006). Mental activity, in which...

Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head. (339)

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change;...

The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent...

I used to have this toy, a magic slate. You wrote or drew on it and then, just by pulling up the plastic cover, everything you did disappeared and you could start new. Maybe everyone...

Can I love someone…and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

The eyes of others my our prisons;their thoughts our cages.

Thoughtful minds grow, in the sharpened awareness of those who have lived life; through love, curiosity and tragedy.

Something is reflecting our thoughts back to us in obvious and not so obvious ways.

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...

You can think all you can but don’t publicize all your thoughts

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.

Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.

Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.

When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open.

There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into...

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

The temperature is very cold” (a simple statement of fact), then our expressions, and therefore attitude, are not negative. Sustaining an alert state in which self-awareness becomes possible gives us a chance to discover the...

I think it’s really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I’m just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

I danced as he twirled in and out of consciousness, and there we were, one in love and the other astray.

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,...

You got to be careful of what comes and leave your mind and how often they do both. Whatever enters your mind has brought a new brand of you and whatever exits is going to...

Happiness is there when thoughts and actions are in harmony.

All thoughts, secret or spoken, belong in a coffee table book written in Braille, so you can really feel the emotions.

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...

You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.

Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say to somebody “I love you”, when you are considering your children, when you...

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.

There is something great in whatever you look at. Many people look but few people see;to leave a distinctive footprint, do not just look but see for seeing will make you different

Life cannot purely rely on thoughts. Action is required with better sence of humour.

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

The words a person reads and hears and repeats become his own, enter his verbal storehouse. When needed they become, even if he does not know it, the clothing for the thoughts to which he...

Every dream is the beginning of a new life in your thoughts..

It’s my fault but the most violating thing I’ve felt this year is not the media exaggerations or the catchy gossip, but the rape of my personal thoughts.

Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.

Keeping busy is the hardest part. When I find myself still, clear of thoughts, I can still feel you holding me.

…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.

You build your reality from the desires and thoughts that you focused upon.

Our thoughts are just a story our mind tell us.

More often than not, it’s better to give up thinking, worrying and obsessing, in favour of faith that things will work out fine.

For the first time she could see a man’s head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through...