Quotes about Thoughts

There are only two kinds of thoughts you can have, memories and imaginings.

But if you plot revenge against an evildoer, you are harming yourself: Not because the thought may come back to injure you, which is superstition, but because negative thinking reinforces the source of negativity. Darkness adds to darkness.

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling and action that you experience.

The old brain can't conjure up ideas or read.

He can handle all your emotions. Every last dark and wretched thought. He already knows about them anyway.

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

If you wonder why you choose to worship other gods rather than wholeheartedly devote yourself to the Lord you love, examine the thought and desires that captivate your heart. That's where you'll fin the answer to every sin and failure in your life. Don't be deceived into thinking that you need to develop more willpower. We need to develop godly thoughts and desires.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.