Quotes about Thoughts
What a shame that the mind can command the face to assume whatever look or expression it pleases, but cannot command itself and govern its own thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius
Where do the words go when we have said them?
— Margaret Atwood
Everything that went on in your life was thought to be due to some positive or negative power emanating from inside your head.
— Margaret Atwood
Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.
— Napoleon Hill
When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
— David Brainerd
You become what you think about most of the time.
— Brian Tracy
At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.
— Tony Robbins
I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.
— Anne Frank
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
— Anne Lamott
I smiled back at her. I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
— Anne Lamott
It is most comfortable to be invisible, to observe life from a distance, at one with our own intoxicating superior thoughts. But comfort and isolation are not where the surprises are. They are not where hope is.
— Anne Lamott
I know God enjoys hearing my take on how best we should all proceed, as I'm always full of useful advice. I'm sure God says either, Oh, I so love Annie's selfless and evolved thoughts, or else Jeez. What a head case.
— Anne Lamott