Top 100 Our Own Thoughts Quotes
#1. Our relationship with our own thoughts dictates how enjoyable all of our relationships in life will be.
Noah Elkrief
#2. It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
Teresa Of Avila
#3. Rumination tends to be eased if we learn to be mindful; if we are able to be aware of, and understand how our own thoughts work.
Peter Kinderman
#4. Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty ... a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.
J.I. Packer
#5. Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.
Kourtney Kardashian
#6. What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.
Emmet Fox
#8. Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.
Eric Thomas
#9. The most important factor in abandoning our thoughts is to look in the Bible and see what God says about a matter. Then we must determine to act on His Word rather than on our own thoughts or those the devil may whisper into our minds.
K.P. Yohannan
#10. We have become masters of projection - pushing the responsibility for our own thoughts outward so that the consequences of our thoughts become someone else's problem.
Darren Main
#11. We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.
Orison Swett Marden
#12. It is our own thoughts that lead us into trouble, not other people.
Gautama Buddha
#13. Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years, I think the strongest power in the world is not vitamin C but the power of our own thoughts.
Frederick Lenz
#14. We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts.
Tamim Ansary
#15. We [musicians] are comfortable in front of the camera doing music videos, and it's almost a form of acting when we're doing music videos. We're acting out our own thoughts and what we've written down on paper.
Ludacris
#16. The broader we cast our net, the deeper we wind up owning our own thoughts.
Peter Enns
#17. It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
Jean Rostand
#18. When we transcend our own thoughts, we get in touch with the womb of creation.
Deepak Chopra
#19. Confronting fear, weaknesses, and neediness by choosing our own thoughts is the way out.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#20. Moments spent alone make us realize the value of our own thoughts. Value your solitude.
Avijeet Das
#21. It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one hand, we can't make sense of it in scientific terms; on the other, we feel that we are the authors of our own thoughts and actions.
Sam Harris
#22. When the mindfulness of a samurai swordsman fails, he loses his life. When we lose mindfulness in daily life, something similar happens. We become so entangled in our own thoughts and emotions that we lose contact with the bigger picture.
Culadasa
#23. There is nothing stronger then our own thoughts, when we that can control life will be more Easier.
Jan Jansen
#24. Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?
Henry David Thoreau
#25. Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#26. So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously, What overwhelms people when they are about to leaves friends, family, old haunts and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts.
Epictetus
#27. Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#28. We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's thought that help us to do so.
Alain De Botton
#29. We have our own thoughts, and if we want others to know them, we must tell them.
Henry Cloud
#30. People who say, "it is not my fault," continuously fail. People who say, "I've done no wrong," have not done enough right. People who say, "I am done!" are never done repeating the cycle. Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we can't sow lies and reap truth.
Katina Ferguson
#31. We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#32. We often have very little empathy for our own thoughts and feelings and frequently try to suppress them by dismissing them as weaknesses.
Mark Williams
#33. Nothing in the world is difficult, it is only our own thoughts that make things seem so.
Wu Cheng'en
#34. We will have nothing substantial to offer anyone else so long as we have not first mastered the art of being patient midwives to our own thoughts.
Alain De Botton
#35. The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.
Charles Dickens
#36. God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.
Anne Bronte
#37. It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.
Marianne Williamson
#38. When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.
Joel Osteen
#39. Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
#41. The Lover is ever drunk with Love.
He is mad. She is free.
He sings with delight. She dances in ecstasy.
Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything.
But once we get drunk on that Love
Whatever will be, will be.
Rumi
#42. It is absolutely a relationship with food that is a displaced relationship with God. And that displaced relationship with God takes two forms: our availability to other people and our availability to our own thoughts and feelings.
Marianne Williamson
#43. Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
Sidney Altman
#44. Bird has to fly with their own wings; we have to think our own thoughts, find our own destiny.
Debasish Mridha
#45. Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.
Bo Bennett
#48. That's all there is to it. We look different, so we don't understand each other's inner thoughts, but we cherish each other in our own way. I respect you.
Sun-mi Hwang
#49. Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present.
Jim Rohn
#50. When we meditate, we go beyond the swirl of thoughts, memories and emotions that tend to keep us stuck in our ego's story of who we are. We enter an expanded state of awareness and discover our own inner fountain of joy, a source of happiness that isn't dependent on anyone or anything.
Deepak Chopra
#51. Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.
Paul Brunton
#52. Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
Khaled Hosseini
#53. Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their own. He redeems the whole person. Conversion is meant to give new direction to our thoughts, emotions, wills and habits.
Nancy Pearcey
#54. Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
Rush Limbaugh
#55. What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
Richard Eyre
#56. Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.
Gautama Buddha
#57. If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
J.M. Coetzee
#58. Sometimes the most frightening of thoughts can be found hiding among the shadows of our own minds.
J.D. Barker
#59. By looking at the behavior of the cells in our own body, we can observe the most extraordinary and efficient expression of The Seven Spiritual Laws. This is the genius of nature's intelligence. These are the thoughts of God - the rest are details.
Deepak Chopra
#60. The right to express out thoughts, however, means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own; freedom from external authority is a lasting gain only if the inner psychological conditions are such that we are able to establish our own individuality.
Erich Fromm
#61. The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can actually choose the direction of our thoughts instead of just letting them run along the grooves of conditioned thinking, we become the masters of our own lives.
Eknath Easwaran
#62. Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
Alexander Pope
#63. Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us to find out what we know-and what we don't know-about whatever we're trying to learn.
William Zinsser
#64. We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
James Harvey Robinson
#65. I know that even at moments of apparent danger, nothing is out of order or lacking, other than our own unquestioned thoughts about those moments.
Byron Katie
#66. Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing.... The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.
Richard Rohr
#67. A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.
Thomas Browne
#68. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.
Betty Eadie
#69. New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#70. Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.
Sam Harris
#71. If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
Oscar Wilde
#72. Often on a journey of spiritual transformation, that is ultimately what heals the pain: the veil is removed from in front of our own eyes and we see where we had been thinking thoughts that would inevitably lead to pain. Until we change those thoughts, the pain will remain.
Marianne Williamson
#73. In a reality made of energy, thoughts may literally be things. What if it was intended that we create our own realities after death?
Whitley Strieber
#74. 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.
Mohsin Hamid
#75. If we learn to be responsible for our own emotions, thoughts, and needs, then we can see other people for who they are as opposed to what they can do for us.
Vironika Tugaleva
#76. People think of all kinds of things at three in the morning. We all do. That's why we each have to figure out our own way of fighting it off.
Haruki Murakami
#77. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.
Swami Vivekananda
#79. We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.
John Hodgman
#80. There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It's like the song "Amazing Grace": I was blind and now I see.
Marianne Williamson
#81. I don't believe in God or miracles, I believe in the human heart and our own strength to overcome and survive. ~Shannon~
A. Giannoccaro
#82. We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.
Carl Bereiter
#83. We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
Maria Mitchell
#84. Sometimes we are our own worst enemies. One must learn to be discerning with one's own thoughts. We must be able to decipher the truth versus the lies of our minds. Otherwise, we become enslaved to the shackles of struggle we place on our own ankles.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#85. Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi's way ... in the words of Buddhist poet Gary Snyder, our job is to move the world a millionth of an inch.
Eboo Patel
#86. There's the physical world . . . but there's also our own private inner worlds, the world of our thoughts. A world made of ideas instead of stuff. It's just as real as our world, but it's inside.
Joe Hill
#88. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts
A.W. Tozer
#89. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#90. We've all got voices inside our heads and over time they blend into a mental orchestra that all sounds the same. This is where we assume every voice we hear is our own even though that is not true.
Toni Sorenson
#91. It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
George Eliot
#92. We have All our own Way and Thoughts about Life, please wake up
Jan Jansen
#93. I wondered whether water is a mirror for our darker emotions as much as it is an engine for our happiness. Water quiets all the noise, all the distractions, and connects you to your own thoughts.
Wallace J. Nichols
#94. The barriers of impossibility, which close off the field of reality to our dreams and desires, were shattered, and his thoughts drifted exuberantly through the unattainable, fired by their own movement.
Marcel Proust
#95. We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Alan W. Watts
#96. In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.
Edgar Allan Poe
#97. Fundamentally it is only our own basic thoughts that possess truth and life, for only these do we really understand through and through. The thoughts of another that we have read are crumbs from another's table, the cast-off clothes of an unfamiliar guest.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#99. Every day our life was full of thoughts of the horrible present, and even our own death.
Diane Ackerman
#100. No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold some-thing or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that we are buying of our own accord or acting on our own ideas. We like to be consulted about our wishes, our wants, our thoughts.
Dale Carnegie
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