Our Thoughts Quotes - Page 5

• The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

  R. D. Laing

  Change, Learning, Knowledge

  Attributed in: "Educating Christians" by Jack Lee Seymour, Margaret Ann Crain, Joseph V. Crockett, (p. 53), 1993.

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• You and I shouldn't claim we love Oregon more than anyone else, but that we love Oregon as much as anyone. Our thoughts today, and our deliberations to come, must spring from our determination to keep Oregon lovable and to make it even more livable.

  Tom McCall

  Determination, Spring, Oregon

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• One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.

  Richard Bach

  Thinking, Law, Wish

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• We want to know what our self is. We are the sky. Our thoughts are the birds that come and go. You can enjoy the birds and their beauty, but it is the sky that lasts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Sky, Bird

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• We are where our thoughts have taken us.

  William Webb

  Taken

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• God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sanctuary

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• In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.

  Barbara Hurd

  Letting Go, Dream, Home

  Barbara Hurd (2003). “Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The sad fact is that we're not educated to be aware and therefore able to question the reality created by our thinking. We don't realize that we must take responsibility for our thoughts to find out if they are really true, and then set aside or at least acknowledge those that are simply opinion and bias. We don't recognize that most thoughts are ultimately judgments, and that the truth of any judgment is how that judgment makes us feel.

  Richard Moss

  Responsibility, Reality, Thinking

  Richard Moss “Inside-Out Healing”, Hay House, Inc

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• It is people who pause to appreciate life and give thanks who are happiest. If we change our thoughts, we change our world! Love and peace to you all.

  Brittany Maynard

  Our World, World Love, People

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• Because our consciousness doesn’t die at death, we carry our mind-set of thoughts and beliefs with us to the other side. As in life, so in death. When we cross over into the other dimensions, we continue to create experiences through our thoughts, the same way we did in life.

  James Van Praagh

  Mind, Way, Sides

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• I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its physical hugeness, its rough enormity. It is still a disparate monstrosity, full of solitudes, barrens, wilds. It still dwarfs, terrifies, crushes. The rivers still roar, the mountains still crash, the winds still shatter. Man is an affair of cities. His gardens, orchards and fields are mere scrapings. Somehow, however, he has managed to shut out the face of the giant from his windows. But the giant is there, nevertheless.

  Wallace Stevens

  Crush, Men, Garden

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• Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression of loyalty, love, and respect.

  Xunzi

  Loyalty, Sacrifice, Expression

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• At times the whole sky was ringed in shooting points and puckers of light gathering and falling, pulsing, fading, rhythmical as breathing. All of a piece. As if the sky were a pattern of nerves and our thought and memories traveled across it. As if the sky were one gigantic memory for us all.

  Louise Erdrich

  Memories, Fall, Light

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.31, Odyssey Editions

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• We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make us sick.

  Marie Osmond

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Heart, Eye, And Love

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• Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever.

  Vito Fossella

  Prayer, Forever, September 11

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• Where do you need to think for yourself? When we begin to cultivate awareness of our thoughts and emotions, we begin to see just how much we live according to other people's and society's beliefs and actions. Don't get upset by this. Just get in touch with how you really think and feel inside and begin to express your authenticity.

  Alan Keightley

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

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• Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts.

  John Harricharan

  Peace, Inner Peace, Nations

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• Whatever we fix our thoughts upon or steadily focus our imagination upon, that is what we attract.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Law Of Attraction, Imagination, Focus

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.62, Lulu.com

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• Music. – There is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough: but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do: it speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up; it puts noble feelings into us; it melts us to tears, we know not how: – it is a language by itself, just as perfect, in its way, as speech, as words; just as divine, just as blessed.

  Charles Kingsley

  Music, Blessed, Heart

  "The Good News of God".

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• We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.

  John Ortberg

  Moving, Belief, Conformity

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.158, Harper Collins

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• What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Technology, Feelings

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• When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.

  Byron Katie

  Husband, Believe, Suffering

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• We have the ability to manifest our thoughts: to actually say something and express what our feelings are. That, then, transforms the world and puts something into action.

  Jason Mraz

  Feelings, World, Action

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.

  Rene Descartes

  Change, Believe, Power

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