It's hard

“It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”

~Sally Kempton

To accept opinions

"To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think."

- C. Wright Mills

Religion

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

A consistent thinker

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is when

"It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists."

~Eckhart Tolle

There are thoughts

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

~Victor Hugo

The world is

“The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colors which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts.”

James Edward Allen

Often the hands

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

~Carl Jung

His answer

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

~Lewis Carroll

We are shaped

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

~Buddha

I never

I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.

~Albert Einstein

Thoughts

"Thoughts become things.
Choose the good ones."

~ Mike Dooley

Thoughts lead on

"Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny"

~ Tryon Edwards

Do not think

"Do not think that what your thoughts dwell on does not matter. Your thoughts are making you."

~ Bishop Steere

All that we are

"All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."

~ Buddha

To think

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

~Eva Young

If men had wings

If men had wings and bore black feathers,
few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

- Rev. Henry Ward Beecher

Thus those skilled

“Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy’s army without battle … . They conquer by strategy.”

– Sun Tzu

An incurable psychotic

"An incurable psychotic individual may lose his usefulness but yet retain the dignity of a human being. This is my psychiatric credo."

~Viktor E. Frankl

You are what you think

"You are what you think.
You are what you go for.
You are what you do!"

-- Bob Richards