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Quotes about Thoughts

    “Only the wise man, only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.” ~ James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

      “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

        “Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

          “While positive thinking doesn’t always work, negative thinking, unfortunately, almost always does.” ~ Gary Mack, Mind Gym

            “There is an intrinsic law: thoughts don’t have their own life. They are parasites; they live on your identifying with them. When you say, ‘I am angry,’ you are pouring life energy into anger, because you are getting identified with anger. But when you say, ‘I am watching anger flashing on the screen of the mind within me,’ you are not anymore giving any life, any energy to anger.”

            Osho, The Book of Understanding (page 117)

              “If you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem.” ~ Stephen M. R. Covey, The Speed of Trust

                “An argument that happened while you were walking out the door on your way to work is no longer an actual argument, it’s a thought in your mind.” ~ Richard Carlson, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

                  “Your life is what your thoughts make it.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

                    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” ~ Henry Ford

                      An amazing analogy by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer:

                        “Not to speak one’s thought is slavery.” ~ Euripides

                          “Choose the positive. You have a choice. You are the master of your attitude. Choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.” ~ Bruce Lee

                            "The soul becomes dyed with the color or its thoughts." ~ Marcus Aurelius

                              "The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts." ~ Marcus Aurelius

                                “The world we have created is a product of our way of thinking.” ~ Albert Einstein

                                  "The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains, proves that he has no brains of his own." ~ Charles Spurgeon

                                    "You are what you think about most of the time." ~ Earl Nightingale