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71fbf53 "Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar." thoughts reading feelings Cornelia Funke
0375703 Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes. gratitude thoughts inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism heart life inspirational Roy T. Bennett
051d6f6 Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart. gratitude thoughts inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism heart life inspirational Roy T. Bennett
838b51e Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those. thoughts love sensation infatuation Sylvia Plath
b42eb1b Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied. words words-of-wisdom thoughts inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism life wisdom inspirational wise Roy T. Bennett
53909f7 When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first. Even I didn't jump first. Her eyes were so stern, so insistent. Beautiful. thoughts tobias Veronica Roth
2ae4ddf You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory! men thoughts women Georgette Heyer
f6971cf I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line. thoughts romance identity religion life lesbian Jeanette Winterson
4ab94da It's important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life. experiences mind thoughts kindness joy empathy compassion inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life love inspirational generosity belief humility peace Roy T. Bennett
3400d82 The universe doesn't give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions. universe thoughts change motivational success inspirational actions intent Steve Maraboli
10a4c88 What we do comes out of who we believe we are. thoughts inspiration Rob Bell
4f4d431 I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over. thoughts inspirational anne-of-green-gables L.M. Montgomery
92b424a You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value. thoughts living life Hermann Hesse
74cf893 If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings. lessons thoughts life love inspirational perspective self Nayyirah Waheed
e786152 Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will... but then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else... But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills the fascists thoughts quentin margo John Green
95176f7 The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure... I'm lonely... I'm a failure... I'm lonely...) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras. words thoughts Elizabeth Gilbert
96e5de4 There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't. thoughts hope inner-thoughts brains mental-illness mental-health John Green
2bbf254 It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant. thoughts Margaret Mitchell
d0993fe The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head. thoughts reality Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
0f26edc Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway thoughts hazel-grace worry John Green
7c6d3c7 He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute. thoughts dispute ice disagreement debate heat Friedrich Nietzsche
388d829 "It took me to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really raring to go. I was in my study writing. I was learning how to go down into myself and salvage bits and pieces of the past. I was learning how to sneak up on the unconscious and how to catch my seemingly random thoughts and fantasies. By closing me out of his world, Bennett had opened all sorts of worlds inside my own head. Gradually I began to realize that none of the subjects I wrote poems about engaged my deepest feelings, that there was a great chasm between what I cared about and what I wrote about. Why? What was I afraid of? Myself, most of all, it seemed. "Freedom is an illusion," Bennett would have said and, in a way, I too would have agreed. Sanity, moderation, hard work, stability . . . I believed in them too. But what was that other voice inside of me which kept urging me on toward zipless fucks, and speeding cars and endless wet kisses and guts full of danger? What was that other voice which kept calling me and egging me on to burn my bridges, to swallow the poison in one gulp instead of drop by drop, to go down into the bottom of my fear and see if I could pull myself up? Was it a voice? Or was it a thump? Something even more primitive than speech. A kind of pounding in my gut which I had nicknamed my "hunger-thump." It was as if my stomach thought of itself as a heart. And no matter how I filled it--with men, with books, with food--it refused to be still. Unfillable--that's what I was. Nymphomania of the brain. Starvation of the heart." feminism thoughts writing insecurity Erica Jong
e3e7dbd Paper is more patient than man. thoughts writing life Anne Frank
3084db8 What business had I to think of one that never thought of me? thoughts romance love Anne Brontë
90368d2 "Perhaps you can feel if you can't hear," was her fancy. "Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don't know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again." thoughts frances-hodgson-burnett Frances Hodgson Burnett
12c0216 He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library. influence thoughts originality independent-thought Milan Kundera
caecda4 I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate. thoughts humour hypocrisy Agatha Christie
9d7b84b In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels thoughts emotion science love inspirational neuropsychology biology Daniel Goleman
bb35b49 At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. thoughts philosophy sunrise Norman Maclean
c0de2a7 Positive thoughts lead to positive results. thoughts Maria V. Snyder
2cf244a Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision. thoughts darkness optimism subconscious perspective perception pessimism human-nature Charles Dickens
f20b855 You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete? madness thoughts life philosophy expectations Paulo Coelho
7af5e16 Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance. time thoughts Alexandre Dumas
6f86bd6 Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts. thoughts wept Mark Z. Danielewski
5186de3 I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time. thoughts feelings demian hermann-hesse children Hermann Hesse
57260e1 We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. present thoughts past life Kurt Vonnegut
57718d2 Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'. sleep thoughts drinking binging empty-your-head ignoring playing-hard-to-get stop-thinking talking-to-yourself voices-inside-your-head thinking-process the-mind self-assurance murphy-s-law mantra insomnia sleeping alone cat ignorance thinking cats alcoholic lonely Gillian Flynn
5d6f549 "What's done is done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we're wasting time, when already we've wasted enough. We've got everything ahead, waiting for us." Just the right words to make me feel real, alive, free! Free enough to forget thoughts of revenge." -- time revenge free thoughts future fin alive finished wasting-time goodbyes real complete done waiting wasted everything V.C. Andrews
1c76e6b The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person. thoughts wisdom thinking desperation Jonathan Tropper
85c543f You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading. thoughts reading nothingness James Patterson
44fb695 Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God. thoughts god life Victor Hugo
05ee1e3 Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words. thoughts Charlotte Brontë
f3ef89d "For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth"." thoughts truth A.S. Byatt
a06ed8b Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better. silence thoughts fair-words indiscretion speech J.R.R. Tolkien
04d69e2 Remember that your dominating thoughts attract, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what your thoughts dwell upon. thoughts mind-power Napoleon Hill
8248429 You can't fight a battle you don't think exists. mind thoughts John Eldredge
2014c60 Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. thoughts love Arundhati Roy
7296421 Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you. thoughts thinking Terry Pratchett
3629606 We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts. thoughts life truth self reflection acts severe judgement Anaïs Nin
57d41af The world follows its own course. Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path. So it is with your mother, and so it is with your starling. As it is with everyone. The world follows its own course. thoughts life Haruki Murakami
85332ad "We are , and yet we naively play the role of "the ." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential." thoughts religion philosophy katherine-solomon the-human-mind Dan Brown
730fedf When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our inner senses. Infused with silence and solitude, they bring out the mystery of inner landscape. solitude thoughts self-awareness John O'Donohue
ed322fb Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfeted but life-enhancing thoughts. travel thoughts Alain de Botton
1a19270 "Everybody has a soul." I turn to Pelly. "And that means you, too." "I'm not so sure of that," he says. "What does it feel like?" "Having a soul?" I look at Maxine, but she only shrugs. "I don't know," I tell Pelly. "I don't have anything to compare it to- you know, what not having a sould would feel like." We fall into a kind of awkward silence. I don't know about the others, but I'm working on what a soul is and not coming up with a whole lot. I mean, I just always thought of it as me- what I feel like being me. But surely Pelly feels like himself, so that means he's got a soul right? But if that's not your soul, then what is? It's weird and not something you really think about, is it?" thoughts soul Charles deLint
1d9ae0f What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it? mind thoughts nightp strangers-on-a-train patricia-highsmith trickster sound train shadow strangers creation Patricia Highsmith
0077182 In my brain were stored a thousand pictures. thoughts life-of-the-mind Hermann Hesse
bf865e1 He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon. solitude thoughts thinking depressed scared Douglas Adams
079b5da I know, I know, I'm being a girl. stereotypes thoughts women girl-problems over-thinking girl Gillian Flynn
c14d4f2 But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that. thoughts E.L. Konigsburg
21f3e6d She thought it was strange that the mere sensation of savouring the prospect of something could make her think for a while that is must be the prospect of home. thoughts Colm Tóibín
24795e9 "Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality." thoughts politics ideas knowledge Antonio Gramsci
ff752a8 I have just discovered that I have no feelings, just thoughts, borrowed thoughts taken from someone I admire because he seems to have feelings. thoughts feelings jack-kerouac Allen Ginsberg
a297a28 Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three thoughts secret Edith Hamilton
605c19d What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead. thoughts human life Jodi Picoult
075c74c Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me. words mind thoughts truth Markus Zusak
a88e085 You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things. thoughts St. Augustine of Hippo
e4de27a "I need a break after school," she told me later. "School is hard because a lot of people are in the room, so you get tired. I freak out if my mom plans a play date without telling me, because I don't want to hurt my friends' feelings. But I'd rather stay home. At a friend's house you have to do the things other people want to do. I like hanging out with my mom after school because I can learn from her. She's been alive longer than me. We have thoughtful conversations. I like having conversations because they make people happy." happy thoughts feelings learning play mom introverts quiet introvert home thoughtful school Susan Cain
e4a66c4 He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface. It was a cozy room, for all that ; it smelled of warm, rich words and very deep thoughts. words thoughts jenny-nimmo room-filled-with-books smell-of-books room Jenny Nimmo
0533b96 With a certain frustration I knew I spoke too soon, too urgently. I wanted to get out of the way the things I knew to say, wanted to say, the things I'd been thinking, all in the hope of moving into the unforeseen. words thoughts hope unforeseen Denis Johnson
58830c5 Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness. thoughts prayer philosophy Peter Kreeft
66871a7 Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one onf the things that discipline - training - is about. pain thoughts life-and-living sadness motivational life-lessons inspirational James Clavell
c737295 "She has the most delicious thoughts about you, Tamlin," he said. "She's wondered about the feeling of your fingers on her thighs--between them, too." He chuckled. Even as he said my most private thoughts, even as I burned with outrage and shame, I trembled at the grip still on my mind. Rhysand turned to the High Lord. "I'm curious: Why did she wonder if it would feel good to have you bite her breast the way you bit her neck?" "Let. Her. Go." Tamlin's face was twisted with such feral rage that it struck a different, deeper chord of terror in me. "If it's any consolation," Rhysand confided to him, "she would have been the one for you--and you might have gotten away with it. A bit late, though. She's more stubborn than you are." rage mad thoughts let-her-go high-lord rhysand tamlin intimate read-minds Sarah J. Maas
3618345 For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. thoughts life influences George Eliot
25c8f8c Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette a l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensees, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie. (There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.) thoughts goodness privacy laws guilt Michel de Montaigne
294f5a9 I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts about Adam lived and disconnected the electricity and boarded up all the doors and windows, so nothing could get out. Obviously it was very unsightly. There were bound to be complaints from the neighboring thoughts. But I had no choice. thoughts Marian Keyes
c260927 I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine. suicide thoughts James Baldwin
95bfcb8 Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic. thoughts anxious blank-mind going-blank lost-thoughts the-human-mind spelling-bee the-mind panic-attack brain forgetting panic thinking Gillian Flynn
e405bed Do all people have that? A face, a phrase, a landscape, an air bubble from the past suddenly floating up as if released by the head warden's child from a cell in the brain while the mind is at work on some totally different matter? Something of the sort also occurs just before falling asleep when what you think you are thinking is not at all what you think. Or two parallel passenger trains of thought, one overtaking the other. thoughts recollection Vladimir Nabokov
eb40399 And what the hell does that even mean? Why would you serve food for thoughgs, and what kind of food? If you serve spinach, do you get healthy thoughts? If it's ice cream and candy, it is fun thoughts? Why do we say stupid things? thoughts food-for-thought funny-and-random J.D. Robb
5971361 It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns ... It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I. words thoughts sartre Jean-Paul Sartre
efe1690 They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, 'Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.' And when I tried to laugh it off and said, well, I didn't like cherry cobbler either, Marybeth touched Rand's arm: 'Because of the divorce. All those comfort foods, the desserts a family eats together, those are just bad memories for Nick.' It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries. irony thoughts memories funny over-thinking broken-home cherry-pie the-mind iconoclast psychologist divorce childhood-memories simplicity ironic patriotism logic childhood symbolism psychology Gillian Flynn
b45bee2 My brain is so busy with Nick thoughts, it's a swarm inside my head: Nicknicknicknicknick! And when I picture his mind, I hear my name as a shy crystal ping that occurs once, maybe twice, a day and quickly subsides. I just wish he thought about me as much as I do him. Is that wrong? I don't even know anymore. thoughts Gillian Flynn
841375e There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say 'I think' we don't leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead. thoughts feelings objectivity subjectivity thinking Jeanette Winterson
dc63d71 When a person pauses in mid-sentence to choose a word, that's the best time to jump in and change the subject! It's like an interception in football! You grab the others guy's idea and run the opposite way with it! The more sentences you complete, the higher your score! The idea is to block the other guy's thoughts and express your own! That's how you win! Conversations aren't contests! Ok, a point for you, but I'm still ahead. thoughts humour speaking thinking ideas Bill Watterson
b81ad50 Summer quiet thoughts on summer quiet noons. thoughts quiet summer Ray Bradbury
d157177 Syllogism -- Major premise: I can control my thoughts. Minor premise: My feelings come from my thoughts. Conclusion: I can control my feelings. thoughts feelings Wayne W. Dyer
0179f0b For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth. man woman mind thoughts thinking Zora Neale Hurston
0c4b599 I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with our will. It is strange to realize that even our own thoughts pass by like scenery out the window of a bus, a bus we took by accident while trying to get somewhere else. thoughts will Daniel Pinchbeck
205f59e Every hour, stop and ask: Am I really present in this moment? If not, what are my thoughts focused on? Doing this often will help you return to the present moment. present thoughts present-moment return moment Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy
c1c2757 Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I wonder which one YOU are. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles! thoughts realist pragmatist whimsical spontaneity thinking principles Bill Watterson
a429a86 He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must have forgotten all about me, perhaps for some considerable time, and that he himself was so lost in the labyrinth of his own unquiet thoughts that I did not exist. thoughts realization worry Daphne du Maurier
03b1582 Don't worry about the past and don't try to figure out the future thoughts past positive Garrison Keillor
34e4e51 "Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel. Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel brain" are given over to one thought: food. The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: ." thoughts rodents squirrels brains thinking food Kate DiCamillo
98b5d7b I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts. What are you thinking, Amy? thoughts relationships love centipedes gone-girl thinking-process over-thinking the-mind the-unknown Gillian Flynn
f4efddf I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking. thoughts friends relationship love understading Lois Lowry
45399c6 ...being able to listen to unrepeatable secrets, wishes, and desires wasn't as wonderful as it seemed...being aware of what other people felt at every moment would come to cause him a lot of headaches, and huge disappointments in love. thoughts love Laura Esquivel
ec3ecbe I don't want to talk as much,' she said, denting her chin thoughtfully with her forefinger. 'It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. thoughts L.M. Montgomery
ff016cf Was I prone to sadness and melancholy? How could anyone like that? It wasn't that I wanted it; it was that I was so used to hard rains, I couldn't help expecting a cloudburst every time something nice happened and sunshine beamed down over me. thoughts rain sadness cloudburst landry pearl-in-the-mist v-c-andrews sunshine melancholy V.C. Andrews
357e9dc You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? Yet all you put in their place is a horrid little refusal to have nasty thoughts or do nasty things or be nasty in any way. Do you know that every great thing in the story of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that? hatred thoughts feelings passion beauty life love truth bourgeois despise horrid refusal snobbish snob classes nasty snobbishness class beautiful thought John Fowles
364a6f0 I should have learned mindfulness, and it's too late now because it's no good learning it when you're already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I'll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement. thoughts humour mindfulness self-deprecation distraction crisis worry Marian Keyes
9391ed7 Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy! thoughts Joseph Conrad
3bb843e Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thought about. It was not necessarily more profound, but there was a struggle going on inside me to find some sort of creative or spiritual or aesthetic way of seeing the world and organizing it in my head. thoughts writing Anne Lamott
0bea69d In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state. Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little. Feeling is frightening. Well, I find it so. thoughts state-of-mind brain feeling suppression emotions Jeanette Winterson
5de2705 I happen to know this, and I happen to know that, and maybe I know that;and I work everything out from there. Tomorrow I may forgot that this is true, but remember that something else is true, so I can reconstruct it all again. I am never quite sure of where I am supposed to begin or where I am supposed to end. I just remember enough all the time so that as the memory fades and some of the pieces fall out I can put the thing back together again every day thoughts Richard P. Feynman
0d0da61 It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the majority of our thoughts, at any given time, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are. thoughts self-awareness Jonathan Tropper
130ca8d Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are. We don't share thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered-down versions of them. thoughts selfishness Jonathan Tropper
9f5aa25 Vasudeva listened with great attention. Listening carefully, he let everything enter his mind, birthplace and childhood, all that learning, all that searching, all joy, all distress. This was among the ferryman's virtues one of the greatest: like only a few, he knew how to listen. Without him having spoken a word, the speaker sensed how Vasudeva let his words enter his mind, quiet, open, waiting, how he did not lose a single one, awaited not a single one with impatience, did not add his praise or rebuke, was just listening. Siddhartha felt, what a happy fortune it is, to confess to such a listener, to burry in his heart his own life, his own search, his own suffering. thoughts inspirational listener Hermann Hesse
de0c5a2 Mom used to say that the thoughts in our heads were nothing more than electrical impulses. I remember Dad and her talking about this over dinner. It frustrated Dad that the human brain can fire electrical sparks and think, but that the electricity he'd pump into an android brain would never give it independent thought. The body isn't that different from a machine. Humans and androids both run on electricity. That lightning spark of energy I saw in the reverie. That was my mother's last thought, an echo of electricity, something that sparked when I entered her dreamscape. That spark is gone now. Her life is gone now. Everything that made her, her, is gone now. Faded into nothing. thoughts dreams life independent spark electricity talk Beth Revis
5acec87 For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. The more you look the more you see. thoughts mindfulness possibilities perspective zen thinking questions ideas Robert M. Pirsig
f6bc352 The crisis is past and all is well, the sheep returns to the fold. We're all sheep who have strayed at times. Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning, we've cried. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts, we've shouted to ourselves. thoughts truth sheep Ray Bradbury
00537d9 If my phrases shock the reader, that only shows it is high time he or she was shocked. thoughts ideas H.G. Wells
591a5d7 My foggy brain slid away and-- And I was still dressed in only my bra and panties. Well, at least it's a nice set of bra and panties. Yep, these were the thoughts going through my brain as I looked at a photo of a decapitated head on my bed. thoughts humor decapitated-head olivia underwear Kelley Armstrong
17e41ab Our past thinking has determined our present status, and our present thinking will determine our future status; for man is what man thinks. present thoughts past thinking C.G. Jung
280ebc6 From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order... thoughts Mervyn Peake
268696f I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes. thoughts Tahir Shah
6e51cf0 My mind is like a room where the door swings free in the breeze, and many visitors come and go and stay and vanish as they will. mind thoughts Jane Smiley
71d74f9 Yes, I am a prisoner of sorts, but my prison isn't the house. It's my own thoughts that lock me up! thoughts intrusive-thoughts landry pearl-in-the-mist v-c-andrews prisoner locked-up V.C. Andrews
27d0b72 You could see her thoughts swimming around in her eyes, like fish - some bright, some dark, some fast, quick, some slow and easy, and sometimes, like when she looked up where Earth was, being nothing but colour and nothing else. thoughts ray-bradbury Ray Bradbury
4fcd2fe "The bride waits here," she said, running her hands along her hair, taking in her image but seeming to drift away. "This is the moment you think about what you're doing. Who you're choosing. Who you will love. If it's right, Eddie, this can be such a wonderful moment." -- marriage thoughts magic relationship love wedding reflection Mitch Albom
272cb22 When someone is searching, said Siddhartha, then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal. Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. You, oh venerable one, are perhaps indeed a searcher, because, striving for your goal, there are many things you don't see, which are directly in front of your eyes. thoughts inspirational searching-and-finding Hermann Hesse
610ce95 "Your childhood," said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties. Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind." words history thoughts memories past memory Gregory Maguire
356d30f He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very many of them, and they all concerned the same subject--what a burden his life was. thoughts life troubles thinking Philip Pullman
7b5df7e By all kinds of traps and sign-boards, threatening the extreme penalty of the divine law, exclude such trespassers from the only ground which can be sacred to you. It is so hard to forget what it is worse than useless to remember! If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain-brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town-sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the bar-room and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed. I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality. Our very intellect shall be macadamized, as it were,--its foundation broken into fragments for the wheels of travel to roll over; and if you would know what will make for the most durable pavement, surpassing rolled stones, spruce blocks, and asphaltum, you have only to look into some of our minds which have been subjected to this treatment so long. mind thoughts meaning trivia gossip thinking intellect Henry David Thoreau
5915692 The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their endings from jumping ahead of the rest of their stories. You don't get to choose the chronology of what you dream, or the order of events in which you remember someone. In your mind - in your dreams, in your memories - sometimes the story begins with the epilogue. thoughts relationships memories friends inspiration family death life love end memory nostalgia John Irving
2d002f1 Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeling: some by silence, some by words. words silence thoughts self-expression Elizabeth Gaskell
b02ecd8 Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent--admittedly in my own best interest--on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm. thoughts relationships memories Mohsin Hamid
51f9e7f Or maybe there's one thing to say, about the capitalism of the heart, the belief that the essence of life too can be seized and hoarded, that you can corner the market on confidence, stage a hostile takeover of happiness. thoughts life therapy Rebecca Solnit
5f59248 This is philosophy, Fool. I have never had time to study such things.' 'No, Fitz, this is life. And no one has time not to think of such things. Each creature in the world should consider this thing, every moment of the heart's beating. Otherwise, what is the point of arising each day? thoughts philosophy robin-hobb royal-assassin Robin Hobb
9bdbad6 Old Scully, who according to Jennifer, hadn't the imagination to think the worst. Something she said once, as though neurosis was an artform. thoughts mindset neurosis Tim Winton
cb877ab All that night he thought like boomerangs fly: an idea would shoot way off into the distance, all the way to a caravan in Hollywood and, for a moment, when he had got as far away from school and reality as it was possible to go, he was reasonably happy; then it would begin the return journey, thump him on the head, and leave him in exactly the place he had started from. And all the time it got nearer and nearer to the morning. thoughts imagination dreams visions Nick Hornby
477103a The evil that is in Man comes of sluggish minds...for sluggards cannot think, and will not...Send upon us thy flames that we may be burnt of dead thoughts, even as we burn dead grass...make us see. thoughts sluggards sluggish sluggish-minds Richard Llewellyn
66c2290 What's emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy of existing forms of thought to cope with the situation. It can't be solved by rational means because the rationality itself is the source of the problem. The only ones who're solving it are solving it at a personal level by abandoning 'square' rationality altogether and going by feelings alone. Like John and Sylvia here. And millions of others like them. And that seems like a wrong direction too. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that the solution to the problem isn't that you abandon rationality but that you expand the nature of rationality so that it's capable of coming up with a solution. thoughts philosophy modern-problems solutions rational thinking Robert M. Pirsig
f9f334d All the morning since he got up he had been trying to fight through his duties--leaning against a hope--a hope that first had bowed, and then had broke as soon as he really tried its weight. There was not a sign of Sylvia's liking for him to be gathered from the most careful recollection of the past evening. It was of no use thinking there was. It was better to give it up altogether and at once. But what if he could not? What if the thought of her was bound up with his life; and that once torn out by his own free will, the very roots of his heart must come also? thoughts love philip sylvia unreq Elizabeth Gaskell
1b59be4 He [satan] vies for the bedside position, hopping to be the first voice you hear. He covets your waking thoughts, those early, pillow-born emotions. He awakes you with words of worry, stirs you with thoughts of stress. If you dread the day before you begin your day, Mark it down; your giant has been in your head. thoughts giants worry dread stress voice Max Lucado
4ec4571 I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought u wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else. kids pain marriage thoughts plain-truth divorce mother Mitch Albom
c85243d [I]f he had to guess, he would say that the reason he doesn't want to loan the book out, to Ethan or anyone else, is because of the part of his personality that is one gigantic record-keeping system, a complex sifting and filing scheme that dictates what goes here and what goes there, turning his life into so many marks on a tablet. His mind would busy itself with the book's whereabouts every second it was away. He knows it would. personality thoughts loans record-keeping filing ocd Kevin Brockmeier
20dd2f7 Teleiose to phageto tou, petaxe to ugro kai pagomeno khartino sakoulaki ston kado ton skoupidion, eplune to phlitzani kai, me to kouzinomakhairo sto kheri, mazepse ta psikhoula pou eikhan pesei sto trapezi. To ekane sugkentromena gia na kratesei tis skepseis tou se apostase kai na tis aphesei na perasoun mia mia, aphou prota tis ekhei rotesei ti eikhan mesa, giati me tis skepseis kathe prophulaxe einai lige, merikes mas emphanizontai m' ena gluko uphos upokritikes athootetas ki amesos, polu arga omos, ekdelonontai poso kakoetheis einai. seeing thoughts José Saramago
f1f0324 Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places. live thoughts idealism work life ideas young university Mitch Albom
60cd2b6 "When we don't automatically take them (thoughts) personally or believe the stories about "reality" that we build from them,when we can simply hold them in awareness with a sense of curiosity and wonder at their amazing power given their insubstantiality, their limitations,and inaccuracies,then we have a chance right in that moment,in any moment really,to not get caught in their habitual patterning,to see thoughts for what they are,impersonal events. Then in that moment at least, we are already free,ready to act with greater clarity and kindness within the constantly changing field of events that is nothing other than life unfolding-- not always as we think it should,but definitely as it is." thoughts mindfulness present-moment Jon Kabat-Zinn
294d6e2 Nurses came to his house to work with Morrie's withering legs.. bending them back and forth as if pumping water from a well.. He met with meditation teachers, and closed his eyes and narrowed his thoughts until his world shrunk down to a single breath, in and out, in and out. mediate prolong exercise thoughts Mitch Albom
cc59607 I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I eat and read and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life--whether I will see them as curses or opportunities (and on the occasions when I can't rise to the most optimistic viewpoint, because I'm feeling too damn sorry for myself, I can choose to keep trying to change my outlook). I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts. you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control. Drop everything else but that. Because if you can't learn to master your thinking, you're in deep trouble forever thoughts love pray eat Elizabeth Gilbert
7a073b6 James found the talk by the wagons tiring after a while. He liked to listen, and he had thoughts of what he'd like to say about the weather, or the corn crop, or the road being macadamized, or the rascals in Congress. But he never quite had the courage to speak them aloud. By the time he had formed words to his liking, the conversation had moved on. thoughts listen Tracy Chevalier
b63582a But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, taking up space in the world, and then, in an instant, become absent, invisible. silence thoughts feelings human death life love years meditation worries human-beings power Jhumpa Lahiri
36be36a Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying. terminal ill time thoughts left disease Mitch Albom
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