3,100 Quotes About Thoughts

How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.

Although I've written a few (a very few) poems over the years, I am not a natural poet...and I remain in awe of people who are. The ability to evoke deep emotion, reveal a new facet of the world, or condense an entire story into the limited space and form of a poem (or likewise, of a good song lyric, or the text for a children's picture book) seems like pure magic to me.

عادةً ما يكونُ الإنسانُ الهادئ مُشتعلاً في داخله، ليسَ شرطاً أن يكونَ الهدوءُ علامةَ المثالية، المثالية ليست هادئةً أبداً، إنها تبدو كذلك من على السطح فقط، أما في العمق، تحتَ القشرة الخارجيةِ، فالإنسانُ المثالي: مُتناقضٌ بطبعه، يكتظُّ عقله بمئات الأفكار والتجارب التي ليس لها فُرصةٌ للخروج في ظلِّ خمولٍ فكري عام، وانتفاء أي بيئةٍ خصبة لازدهار الأفكار ونموها.

X is for X-mas Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket, then all your Christmases can come at once!

Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.

I want to douse myself in silver words and whisper away all rue.

The name of a man is more in his thoughts than in what is thought of him. As a container shapes liquid, so are our lives shaped by our thoughts.

but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers

Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide with others in a shower of sparks before spinning off into its own distance.