The way we think shapes the way we live. Gentle attention turns noise into clarity, and wonder into fresh ideas. As Ralph Waldo Emerson mused: “Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.”
“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.” ~ Alfred Korzybski
“The future of a civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterizes the thought of men today.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
“First ponder, then dare.” ~ Helmuth von Moltke
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
“It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
“I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?” ~ Alice Meynell
“Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.” ~ Tony Hillerman
“God has given us control over one thing in our lives — our thoughts.” ~ Napoleon Hill
“The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!” ~ Lord Byron
“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.” ~ Victor Hugo
“The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ~ Albert Einstein
“First thought, best thought.” ~ Allen Ginsberg
“It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” ~ Dale Carnegie
“It is only a thought, and a thought can be changed.” ~ Louise Hay, You Can Heal Your Life
“Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change
“If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” ~ Roald Dahl, The Twits