Are you thinking what we’re thinking?
“Guard your thoughts carefully. The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
A Beautiful Thought
It just can’t be given or bought
And must be most tenderly sought.
With a velvety pelt,
So soft it may melt -
It’s known as a beautiful thought.
by Author Unknown
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 180)): “The Meditations” (C.E. 167), Book 4, meditation 3
“Do not worry at all about negative thoughts, and do not try to control them. All you have to do is begin to think good thoughts each day. Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day. As you begin to think good thoughts you will attract more and more good thoughts, and eventually the good thoughts will wipe out the negative thoughts altogether.” -Rhonda Byrne
“Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences.” -Author Unknown
“Don’t feed your mind with negative thoughts. If you do, you will come to believe them.” -Catherine Pulsifer
“There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.” -Robert Henri
“Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.” -Anthony Robbins (Anthony Jay ‘Tony’ Robbins (born 1960))
“Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers and prophets, have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
“When we say our mind wanders, where does it go?” -Author Unknown
“Everything’s in the mind. That’s where it starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.” -Mae West (1893 - 1980)
“Whatever you think about grows in your life.” -Author Unknown
“When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles.” -Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797): in a letter (10 July 1779) to Caroline, Countess of Ailesbury
“Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)
“Minds are for people who think.” -Mark Jones (born 1953): “The A-Team,” Season 3, Episode 1 (18 September 1984); words appearing on a T-shirt worn by fictional character Madman Murdoch
“You live with your thoughts - so be careful what they are.” -Eva Arrington
“Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” -Author Unknown
“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day.” -Elizabeth Gilbert
“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.” -René Descartes (1596 - 1650)
“Every thought we think is creating our future.” -Louise L. Hay (Louise Lynn Hay (1926 - 2017))
“There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.” -Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
“Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don’t bite everybody.” -Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909 - 1966): “Unkempt Thoughts” (1957)
“A thought is a substance, producing the thing that is imagined by the thought.” -Wallace D. Wattles (Wallace Delois Wattles (born Wallace Delois Walters (1860 - 1911)
“Change your thoughts, change your life.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)
“It is your ability to think that is your chief source of value; in fact, you are a mind with a body to carry it around in.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
“A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man is not purely mental because man is not just a disembodied mind. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it. It is only by making our knowledge part of ourselves, through action, that we enter into the reality that is signified by our concepts.” -Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
“Don’t try to think too many thoughts all at once. Even the smartest among us can only think one or two things at a time.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Thought is action in rehearsal.” -Author Unknown
“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.” -Thomas Szasz (Thomas S. Szasz (1920 - 2012))
“How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?” -E. M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster (1879 - 1970)): “Aspects of the Novel” (1927)
“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” -Ernest Holmes (Ernest Shurtleff Holmes (1887 - 1960))
“Let one therefore keep the mind pure, for what a man thinks, that he becomes.” -Author Unknown: “The Upanishads”
“Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?” -Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
“No mind is much employed on the present. Recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
“The finest thought runs the risk of being irrevocably forgotten if we do not write it down.” -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860): “Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer” (as translated by T. Bailey Saunders (1851)), ‘The Art of Literature: On Thinking for One’s Self’
“Think only about what you want . . . never dwell on what you don’t want.” -Shane K. Hughes
“When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.” -Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974): as quoted in “Speakers Encyclopedia” (1955)
“Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.” -Joseph Joubert (1754 - 1824), as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)
“We seem to do most of our thinking in our minds.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))
“Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.” -Author Unknown
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881): “Coningsby” (1844), book 3, chapter I
“We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend on what we think.” -Robert Collier (1885 - 1950)
“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“What’s going on in the inside shows on the outside.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
“The mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))
“A penny for your thoughts.” -Author Unknown
“Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts.” -Frank Crane (1861 - 1928)
“We become what we think about.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))
“My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.” -William James (1842 - 1910): “The Principles of Psychology” (1890), Chapter 22
“We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” -Author Unknown
“The biggest lesson I have ever learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you what you are; by changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
“If you change your way of thinking, you change your life.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
“Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (C.E. 26 April 121 - C.E. 180))
“I realize that I will be, when my life’s labor is complete, the product of my thoughts.” -George Albert Smith
“A man is literally what he thinks.” -James Lane Allen (1849 - 1925)
“Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.” -Bill Meyer
“Few minds wear out; more rust out.” -Christian Nestell Bovee (1820 - 1904): “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought” (1862), volume 1
“If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.” -Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
“Life is but thought.” -Sara Teasdale (Sara Teasdale Filsinger (1884 - 1933))
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
“An open mind is all very well in its way but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or it may be found a little drafty.” -Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
“If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.” -Natalie Clifford Barney (1876 - 1972)
“What you think about you bring about.” -Author Unknown
“Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success.” -T. Harv Eker
“Happy thoughts are half of your health.” -Author Unknown
“You are free to think thoughts of worry or joy, and whatever you choose will attract the same kind back to you. Worry attracts worry. Joy attracts joy.” -Rhonda Byrne
It is the mind that maketh good or ill,
That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
by Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)
“Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.” -Ira Gassen
“Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.” -Author Unknown
“Thoughts have power. Thoughts are energy. You can make your world or break it by your thinking.” -Susan Taylor
“Ultimate human power is not in our possessions, but in our minds.” -Author Unknown
Overheard: Sometimes you have to think outside your mind . . .
“Man is made or unmade by himself . . . In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912): “As a Man Thinketh” (1903)
“You become what you think about all day long.” -Author Unknown
“Thought creates character.” -Annie Bessant (1847 - 1933)
“Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you continue to act as you have always acted, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind.” -Author Unknown
“The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.” -Louise L. Hay (Louise Lynn Hay (1926 - 2017))
“What you think about comes about.” -Author Unknown
“What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than you earn, more than where you live, more than you social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.” -George M. Adams (George Matthew Adams (1878 - 1962))
“A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.” -Joseph Joubert (1754 - 1824), as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)
“The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it’s a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.” -Charles R. Swindoll (Charles Rozell ‘Chuck’ Swindoll (born 1934))
“All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)
“You are what you think.” -Author Unknown
“Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)
“If you can think it, you can do it.” -Author Unknown
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you. You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)
“Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Think well.” -Danielle Pierre
This is MFOL! - and that is pretty much all of our thoughts on thinking . . .
“Guard your thoughts carefully. The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
A Beautiful Thought
It just can’t be given or bought
And must be most tenderly sought.
With a velvety pelt,
So soft it may melt -
It’s known as a beautiful thought.
by Author Unknown
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 180)): “The Meditations” (C.E. 167), Book 4, meditation 3
“Do not worry at all about negative thoughts, and do not try to control them. All you have to do is begin to think good thoughts each day. Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day. As you begin to think good thoughts you will attract more and more good thoughts, and eventually the good thoughts will wipe out the negative thoughts altogether.” -Rhonda Byrne
“Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences.” -Author Unknown
“Don’t feed your mind with negative thoughts. If you do, you will come to believe them.” -Catherine Pulsifer
“There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.” -Robert Henri
“Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.” -Anthony Robbins (Anthony Jay ‘Tony’ Robbins (born 1960))
“Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers and prophets, have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
“When we say our mind wanders, where does it go?” -Author Unknown
“Everything’s in the mind. That’s where it starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.” -Mae West (1893 - 1980)
“Whatever you think about grows in your life.” -Author Unknown
“When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles.” -Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797): in a letter (10 July 1779) to Caroline, Countess of Ailesbury
“Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)
“Minds are for people who think.” -Mark Jones (born 1953): “The A-Team,” Season 3, Episode 1 (18 September 1984); words appearing on a T-shirt worn by fictional character Madman Murdoch
“You live with your thoughts - so be careful what they are.” -Eva Arrington
“Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” -Author Unknown
“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day.” -Elizabeth Gilbert
“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.” -René Descartes (1596 - 1650)
“Every thought we think is creating our future.” -Louise L. Hay (Louise Lynn Hay (1926 - 2017))
“There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.” -Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
“Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don’t bite everybody.” -Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909 - 1966): “Unkempt Thoughts” (1957)
“A thought is a substance, producing the thing that is imagined by the thought.” -Wallace D. Wattles (Wallace Delois Wattles (born Wallace Delois Walters (1860 - 1911)
“Change your thoughts, change your life.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)
“It is your ability to think that is your chief source of value; in fact, you are a mind with a body to carry it around in.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
“A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man is not purely mental because man is not just a disembodied mind. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it. It is only by making our knowledge part of ourselves, through action, that we enter into the reality that is signified by our concepts.” -Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
“Don’t try to think too many thoughts all at once. Even the smartest among us can only think one or two things at a time.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Thought is action in rehearsal.” -Author Unknown
“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.” -Thomas Szasz (Thomas S. Szasz (1920 - 2012))
“How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?” -E. M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster (1879 - 1970)): “Aspects of the Novel” (1927)
“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” -Ernest Holmes (Ernest Shurtleff Holmes (1887 - 1960))
“Let one therefore keep the mind pure, for what a man thinks, that he becomes.” -Author Unknown: “The Upanishads”
“Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?” -Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
“No mind is much employed on the present. Recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
“The finest thought runs the risk of being irrevocably forgotten if we do not write it down.” -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860): “Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer” (as translated by T. Bailey Saunders (1851)), ‘The Art of Literature: On Thinking for One’s Self’
“Think only about what you want . . . never dwell on what you don’t want.” -Shane K. Hughes
“When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.” -Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974): as quoted in “Speakers Encyclopedia” (1955)
“Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.” -Joseph Joubert (1754 - 1824), as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)
“We seem to do most of our thinking in our minds.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))
“Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.” -Author Unknown
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881): “Coningsby” (1844), book 3, chapter I
“We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend on what we think.” -Robert Collier (1885 - 1950)
“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“What’s going on in the inside shows on the outside.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
“The mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))
“A penny for your thoughts.” -Author Unknown
“Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts.” -Frank Crane (1861 - 1928)
“We become what we think about.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))
“My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.” -William James (1842 - 1910): “The Principles of Psychology” (1890), Chapter 22
“We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” -Author Unknown
“The biggest lesson I have ever learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you what you are; by changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
“If you change your way of thinking, you change your life.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
“Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (C.E. 26 April 121 - C.E. 180))
“I realize that I will be, when my life’s labor is complete, the product of my thoughts.” -George Albert Smith
“A man is literally what he thinks.” -James Lane Allen (1849 - 1925)
“Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.” -Bill Meyer
“Few minds wear out; more rust out.” -Christian Nestell Bovee (1820 - 1904): “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought” (1862), volume 1
“If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.” -Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
“Life is but thought.” -Sara Teasdale (Sara Teasdale Filsinger (1884 - 1933))
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
“An open mind is all very well in its way but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or it may be found a little drafty.” -Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
“If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.” -Natalie Clifford Barney (1876 - 1972)
“What you think about you bring about.” -Author Unknown
“Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success.” -T. Harv Eker
“Happy thoughts are half of your health.” -Author Unknown
“You are free to think thoughts of worry or joy, and whatever you choose will attract the same kind back to you. Worry attracts worry. Joy attracts joy.” -Rhonda Byrne
It is the mind that maketh good or ill,
That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
by Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)
“Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.” -Ira Gassen
“Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.” -Author Unknown
“Thoughts have power. Thoughts are energy. You can make your world or break it by your thinking.” -Susan Taylor
“Ultimate human power is not in our possessions, but in our minds.” -Author Unknown
Overheard: Sometimes you have to think outside your mind . . .
“Man is made or unmade by himself . . . In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912): “As a Man Thinketh” (1903)
“You become what you think about all day long.” -Author Unknown
“Thought creates character.” -Annie Bessant (1847 - 1933)
“Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you continue to act as you have always acted, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind.” -Author Unknown
“The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.” -Louise L. Hay (Louise Lynn Hay (1926 - 2017))
“What you think about comes about.” -Author Unknown
“What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than you earn, more than where you live, more than you social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.” -George M. Adams (George Matthew Adams (1878 - 1962))
“A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.” -Joseph Joubert (1754 - 1824), as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)
“The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it’s a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.” -Charles R. Swindoll (Charles Rozell ‘Chuck’ Swindoll (born 1934))
“All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)
“You are what you think.” -Author Unknown
“Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)
“If you can think it, you can do it.” -Author Unknown
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you. You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)
“Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Think well.” -Danielle Pierre
This is MFOL! - and that is pretty much all of our thoughts on thinking . . .
