#thoughts

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ↗

— Maria Monk

#any #awe #believed #dead #great

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#destroy #doubting #faith #forbid #house

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#doorway #doubt #faith #i #just

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

#attitudes #because #captains #control #faith

Beware thoughts that come in the night. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#come #night #thoughts

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things. ↗

— Bruce Nauman

#dirty #down #father #find #get

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#having #negative #negative thoughts #once #ones

I don't like being left to my own thoughts. ↗

— David Sedaris

#i #left #like #my own #own

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#entirely #live #others #some #thinking

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#fallacy #founded #grow #happier #happiest