Thought Quotes

She’s lost in thought. I’m lost in her.

I thought my last hour was approaching; and yet imagination is such a strong thing that even in this supreme hour I was occupied with strange and almost childish speculations. But I was the victim, not the master, of my own thoughts.[Je croyais toucher à ma dernière heure, et, pourtant, l’imagination est si bizarre, que je me livrai à une recherche véritablement enfantine. Mais je subissais mes pensées, je ne les dominais pas!]

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Your subconscious mind recognizes and acts upon ONLY thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling.

We talked together through that silence in the language of thought. Nothing is more rapturous than these mute conversations.[Nous nous entretînmes dans le silence par le langage de la pensée. Rien n’est plus ravissant que ces muettes conversations.]

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.[Qui ne possède pas sa pensée ne possède pas son action.]

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.[On n’est pas inoccupé parce qu’on est absorbé. Il y a le labeur visible et le labeur invisible.]

You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts. You may influence, direct, and eventually control your own environment, making your life what you want it to be.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do.