Quotes about thought-life

You need to manage your expectations. You'll live longer.

There is a flow to history and culture. This flow is rooted and has its wellspring in the thoughts of people. People are unique in the inner life of the mind -- what they are in their thought-world determines how they act. This is true of their value systems and it is true of their creativity. It is true of their corporate actions, such as political decisions, and it is true of their personal lives. The results of their thought-world flow through their fingers or from their tongues into the exte

One of the most effective ways of changing the way people think is to change the way they worship.

Addiction is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice.

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.

Lewis is a rare example of someone who liked to think about life's great questions because they were forced on him by his own experience.

Children make theories when they are confused or anxious.

Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.

If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought.

The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

Eight weeks of practice in meditation, even with those with no previous experience, was enough reconfigure the brains of participants. The gray matter which fuels worry shrank, and the area associated with healthy thought awareness group.

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.

John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.

Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.

My brain I'll prove the female to my soul; my soul the father: and these two beget a generation of still-breeding thoughts, and these same thoughts people this little world.

When you begin to fantasize about what you don't have, you begin to kill what you do have. #marriage

She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.

To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude.

Lewis wanted us to understand that the inner world is shaped by stories.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.

He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.

Children who are well nurtured and whose parents help them learn how to calm down when they are upset, for instance, seem to develop greater strength in the brain’s circuits for managing distress;

He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished it.

The worst thing to be afraid of is fear. Give yourself grace. – Jessica Willis

How do you fill the space between, "God says it," and, "I believe it,"?

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

He is now judging himself, harshly, by his captors' rules.

Winnie the Pooh finds comfort in counting his pots of honey, and Rabbit finds comfort in knowing where his relations are – even if he doesn't need them at the moment.

The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.

the sculpting of the brain’s circuitry during this period of brain growth depends to a great degree on what a child experiences day-to-day.

The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.

What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

He forced himself into good spirits.

You'll contact with me by the pressure, the need or by the interest ".

CS Lewis may make difficult questions accessible. I don't think he makes answers 'easy. – Debra Winger

A good therapy helps you develop a sense of irony about your life so that when you start to repeat old and unhelpful patterns, something within you says, "There you go again; let's call this to a halt. You can do something different." Often the first step toward doing something different is developing the capacity to not act, to stay still and reflect.

Folly is a child of power.

He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.

This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST.

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.

There are no memories which I wanted to blot out of my mind. Always, I have been rather objective in my point of view, able to stand off and observe myself and my surroundings in a rather impersonal fashion. The actual sight of my first casualty was not nearly as bad as I had imagined.

Prayer is listening.

Restriction often enhances clarity.

G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.

Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.

His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.