Thought determines action. Do not let your whole life be a reaction to the things that happen around you each day. Let… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament. — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Her thoughts came to life in the stillness of the wood, nurtured by the air and the scent and the vividness of… — Meagan Spooner Copy Share Image
To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain; Awake but one, and lo,… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
“In sitting meditation, our practice is to watch our thoughts arise, label them "thinking", and return to the breath.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“It frequently happens that in proportion as we are taught to dislike persons and countries, not knowing why, we feel an ardor… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson's mind when he described… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
“The mountain in the distance grows darker as we approach it, but it isn't black, and the thought slips into my mind:… — Phil Jourdan Copy Share Image
The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The main thesis of mind-physics holds that consciousness and matter are both manifestations of a more primary entity, and that the processes… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“What is called the spirit of the void is where there is nothing. It is not included in man's knowledge. With your… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
I remember my mum coming into my bedroom when I was lying awake one night, and she asked what I was thinking… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Expecting conceit they found courtesy. Expecting arrogance they found a man concerned with people’s thoughts and feelings.” — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
“There are things you should never see, there are thoughts you should never think, there are words you should never speak, and… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“One always needs to be reminded; one is by no means always in possession of one’s whole self. Our consciousness is feeble;… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Consciousness can travel through space or can be present at multiple locations simultaneously. A conscious mind here can create a material change… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Time is purposeful, experienced uniquely, regulated culturally, momentarily tough when fashioned through negative thoughts, but bequeathed to us all indiscriminately under the… — Oliver Harper Copy Share Image
Defeatist thoughts handicap persons from elevating their mechanistic life to superior states. The majority of persons consider themselves defeated even before beginning… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness". . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about,… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“With the truest instinct of my kind, I’d bound myself securely into the body’s center of thought, twined myself inescapably into its… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
