I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.
She’s lost in thought. I’m lost in her.
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
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.
Your subconscious mind recognizes and acts upon ONLY thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling.
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.
We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.
We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.