Our Thoughts Quotes - Page 17

• The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Dream, Love Is, Magic

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• The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Morning, Prayer, Men

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Our thoughts ought by instinct to fly upwards from animals, men and natural objects to their creator. If created things are so utterly lovely, how gloriously beautiful must he be who made them! The wisdom of the worker is revealed in his handiwork.

  Anthony of Padua

  Beautiful, Men, Animal

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• Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses the world outside and within, produces love and sorrow, keeps our hearts beating and lungs breathing, composes our thoughts, and constructs our consciousness.

  Carl Zimmer

  Communication, Heart, Breathing

  Carl Zimmer (2014). “Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.

  Eric Kandel

  Brain, Our Actions, Emotion

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• True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Choices, Understanding

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• Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go.

  Pema Chodron

  Attachment, Want, Sometimes

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.41, Shambhala Publications

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• The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Communication, Two Sides, Quality

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• Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;--when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead. Fields of craters within and without.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Fire, Clay, Fields

  Erich Maria Remarque (1997). “All Quiet on the Western Front”

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• When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of others, for there is not room enough in us for two scents at one time.

  Milorad Pavić

  Jealous, Two, Scent

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• Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

  Saul Williams

  Letting Go, Feelings, Sometimes

  Saul Williams (2012). “She”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• Our thoughts, our feelings, our dreams, our ideas, are physical in the universe.

  Will Smith

  Dream, Ideas, Feelings

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• It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Happiness, Freedom, Breathing

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.83, 谷月社

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• Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Buddhist, Philosophical

  Dalai Lama (2004). “Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection”, Snow Lion Publication

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• O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our doings. Be with us in our silence and in our speech, in our haste and in our leisure, in company and in solitude, in the freshness of the morning and in the weariness of the evening; and give us grace at all times humbly to rejoice in Thy mysterious companionship.

  John Baillie

  Morning, Order, Giving

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• We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

  William Whewell

  Reflection, Degrees, Courses

  William Whewell (1848). “Elements of morality incluiding polity”, p.1

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• Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

  Blaise Pascal

  Wise, Yesterday, Achievement

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• Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a word, your life is short. You must make the most of the present with the aid of reason and justice. Since it is possible that you may be quitting life this very moment, govern every act and thought accordingly.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Justice, May

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• As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

  Byron Katie

  War, Believe, Long

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2013

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• Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.

  Helen Keller

  Country, Gone, Veils

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• If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it’s condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don’t have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old.

  Richard Bach

  Expression, Perfect, Body

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• People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

  Marcel Proust

  Death, Thinking, People

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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• They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Nature, Animal, Imagination

  Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.97, Penguin

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• We are perfect and it's just for us to acknowledge this aspect of us, be conscious in our thoughts and use mind power to bring forth the betterment of the nation.

  Sizzla

  Perfect, Mind, Use

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• The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.

  Richard Rolle

  Heart, Soul, Lord

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