We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Philip James Bailey

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
Philip James Bailey

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Wallace Stevens

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
Wallace Stevens

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?
Raymond Holliwell

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.
Allen Ginsberg

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
R. D. Laing

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
James Russell Lowell

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
Thomas Mann

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Madame de Stael

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
Ramana Maharshi

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
Ramana Maharshi

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.
Lil' Kim

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
Frederick William Faber

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Jane Fonda

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
William Hazlitt

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
Herman Hesse

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
Boris Yeltsin

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
Allan Bloom