Thoughts - Quotes
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.
The first step toward freedom from anger is to keep the lips silent when the heart is stirred; the next, to keep thoughts silent when the soul is upset; the last, to be totally calm when unclean winds are blowing.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else`s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.