The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

For me to have the opportunity to learn the darbuka and the tabla in Dubai, it created my own thoughts for music.

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

I journal a lot for nobody but myself. Just to get my thoughts out and to clear my mind. That's very therapeutic to me.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

If we want to enlighten people or give them new thoughts and ideas, we have to be willing to do the work of educating them.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.

If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.

People that want to talk can talk. Even a parrot talks. People are always going to have their thoughts on what they're going to say.

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

A new era doesn't come from nothing. New thoughts, values and methods will be established after overcoming various hurdles on the way.

Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.

The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

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