Thoughts And Words

I hate the idea

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people’s ideas and thoughts and words, because I’m very independent and, I guess, a free thinker. Elizabeth Taylor

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. Frank Jackson

Robert Creeley has forged

Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind’s concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed … Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word. Forrest Gander

Manage your mind. When

Manage your mind. When we direct our thoughts and words toward the outcome we most desire, we ignite grace. Cheryl Richardson

In our thoughts and

In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Betty Eadie

It is by the

It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly – thoughts and words no less than tangible objects – and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds. Anna Pavlova

If you are complaining

If you are complaining about things in your life, you are on the complaining frequency, and you are not in a position to attract what you want. Get on to the frequency of good with your thoughts and words. Firstly you will feel good, and secondly you will be on the frequency of receiving more … Read more

What we have forgotten

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money … but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth … In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas … Read more

To have Zen is

To have Zen is to be in a state of pure sensation. It is to be freed from the grip of concepts, to see through them. This is not the same as rejecting conceptual thinking. Thoughts and words are in the world and are as natural as flowers. It is a mistake therefore to think … Read more

I am sure of

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books. Ralph Waldo Emerson