Our Thoughts Quotes - Page 13

• Our thoughts determine our age.

  Yoko Ono

  Age, Determine

  Interview with Takashi Murakami, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2009.

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• Our sexuality is affected by our fantasies. Some of these fantasies have their roots in our childhood. We have the power to control our thoughts but many people don't do it because they get pleasure in their fantasies.

  Ali Sina

  Roots, People, Childhood

  Source: myislam.dk

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• The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

  Bell Hooks

  Justice, Definitions, Would Be

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• I'm absolutely convinced that this is a world of appearances, not reality. There's one reality and that's Light and Love. When some say, we create our own reality, I always demur and say, "Please, would you mind adjusting that a little bit? We create our own appearances." We become master of appearances and as we change our thought, we will see the appearances around us change. That gives us this huge sense of dominion and power and control over our world.

  Richard Bach

  Reality, Our World, Light

  Source: rbach.proboards.com

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• Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.

  Jonathan Swift

  Taken, Aeneas, Giving

  Jonathan Swift (2010). “The Battle of the Books: And Other Works, Including 'A Modest Proposal'”, p.187, The Floating Press

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• We wanna believe that we're different than the average guy that's working 9-to-5, that our thoughts are different than his. Our inspirations and desires are different than his, that's why we succeed and he didn't cos we wanna believe we're different, but he just didn't get the break that we had...or he wasted it on something else.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Believe

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• What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering will follow him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Yesterday, Meditation

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• The more we make an effort to keep our thoughts positive, the more pleasurable our journey in life will be.

  James Van Praagh

  Life, Positive, Journey

  FaceBook post by James Van Praagh from Aug 15, 2014

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• Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life.

  Louise Hay

  Ocean, Sea, Water

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• Now the seasons are closing their files
  on each of us, the heavy drawers
  full of certificates rolling back
  into the tree trunks, a few old papers
  flocking away. Someone we loved
  has fallen from our thoughts,
  making a little, glittering splash
  like a bicycle pushed by a breeze.
  Otherwise, not much has happened;
  we fell in love again, finding
  that one red feather on the wind.

  Ted Kooser

  Wind, Tree, Paper

  Ted Kooser (2005). “Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985”, p.96, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their own. He redeems the whole person. Conversion is meant to give new direction to our thoughts, emotions, wills and habits.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Fall, Giving, Leaving

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• You may think that you are well, but you will not secure health until you think thoughts that produce health. You may persistently affirm that you are well, but so long as you live in discord, confusion, worry, fear and other wrong states of mind, you will be sick; that is, you will be as you think and not what you think you are. You may state health in your thought, but if you give worry, fear and discord to that thought, your thinking will produce discord. It is not what we state in our thoughts, but what we give to our thoughts that determine results.

  Christian D. Larson

  Thinking, Long, Giving

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.294, Penguin

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• Our thoughts create our reality-not instantly, necessarily, as in "Poof! There it is" - but eventually. Where we put our focus - our inner and outer vision - is the direction we tend to go. That's our desire, our intention.

  Peter McWilliams

  Reality, Focus, Vision

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• If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

  Peter Falk

  Mind, Cliche, Danger

  "Columbo Star Peter Falk Dead at 83" by Brian Corder, www.imdb.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Rain, Writing

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• Our thoughts are a field of energy cycles, a mind field, and just by our thoughts alone we impact not only ourselves but those around us as well.

  Wayne Dyer

  Impact, Mind, Fields

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 05, 2011

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• As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Use, Language, Damn

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• Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.

  Wendell Pierce

  Art, Community, Individual

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• Haven't we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and fewer of those remain who know what is most real to us?

  Lan Samantha Chang

  Real, Be Kind, Found

  Lan Samantha Chang (2000). “Hunger: a novella and stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• You will find scientists who will tell you — and they deeply believe it — that we’re quantifiable. We are knowable. That if I can take a high enough resolution picture of all of you — not just your outsides, but your genes, your DNA, all the way down to your atoms — I can know everything about you and everything that you will be. There are people who believe this. And what this tells me is, no. No! All the way down, to the bottom of our thoughts, there’s just more mystery.

  Jad Abumrad

  Believe, Dna, People

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• When we go to the movies, we identify with the characters we see. That's why we go to the movies; we have a voyeuristic experience; we have an out of the body experience. The screen is more real than our thoughts are at the moment we are looking at the film and we place ourselves in the place of the people on the screen, and when they behave nobly, it makes us feel noble, when they are sad and when they have lost love, we feel sad; we can identify with that.

  Roger Ebert

  Real, Lost Love, Character

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• Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more than an echo of the words of someone else. There is no point in being a moon to somebody else's sun, still less is there any justification for our being moons of one another, and hence darkness to one another, not one of us being a true sun.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Moon, Echoes

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• How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

  Henry Martyn

  Magic, Cases, Accuracy

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• The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.

  William Butler Yeats

  Philosophy, Fighting, Night

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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• Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.

  Arianna Huffington

  Meditation, Feelings, Stopping

  Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.103, Harmony

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