#thoughts

How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#going #how #invaded #out #society

Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#infatuation #love #sensation #thoughts #dreams

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

#beautiful #beginning #composite #each #great

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#ever #express #make #safe #scarcely

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

#follows #joy #leaves #like #mind

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. ↗

— Buddha

#free #peace #resentful #surely #those

When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#against #anyone #bring #ever #filled

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#down #erudition #moderns #plagiarism #steal

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

#empty #i #i think #into #my own

Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us. ↗

— Richard Cowper

#hands #meet #our #people #shaping