Quotes About Thoughts
Updated June 18, 2014.
If you are working to overcome social anxiety disorder (SAD) through cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) or another talk therapy, you will be asked to examine and change your thinking patterns. Below are a variety of quotes about how your thoughts shape who you are.
The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
~Terry Josephson
You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ~Alan Alda
It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else. ~Stanley Kubrick
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap. ~Anthony Hopkins
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. ~Albert Einstein
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. ~William Shakespeare
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. ~C. S. Lewis
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right. ~Henry Ford
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
~Albert Einstein
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. ~Jonathan Safran Foer
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control. Drop everything else but that. Because if you can't learn to master your thinking, you're in deep trouble forever. ~Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. ~Mahatma Gandhi
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. ~Henry David Thoreau
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. ~Marcus Aurelius
As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behaviour. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works. ~John Maxwell
Sources:
Brainy Quote. Quotes About Thinking. Accessed February 14th, 2013.
Brainy Quote. Quotes About Thoughts. Accessed February 14th, 2013.
Good Reads. Quotes About Thinking. Accessed February 14th, 2013.
Quote Garden. Quotations About Thinking. Accessed February 14th, 2013.
ThoughtFormz. Quotes About Thinking. Accessed February 14th, 2013.
If you are working to overcome social anxiety disorder (SAD) through cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) or another talk therapy, you will be asked to examine and change your thinking patterns. Below are a variety of quotes about how your thoughts shape who you are.
The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
~Terry Josephson
You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ~Alan Alda
It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else. ~Stanley Kubrick
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap. ~Anthony Hopkins
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. ~Albert Einstein
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. ~William Shakespeare
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. ~C. S. Lewis
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right. ~Henry Ford
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
~Albert Einstein
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. ~Jonathan Safran Foer
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control. Drop everything else but that. Because if you can't learn to master your thinking, you're in deep trouble forever. ~Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. ~Mahatma Gandhi
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. ~Henry David Thoreau
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. ~Marcus Aurelius
As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behaviour. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works. ~John Maxwell
Sources:
Brainy Quote. Quotes About Thinking. Accessed February 14th, 2013.
Brainy Quote. Quotes About Thoughts. Accessed February 14th, 2013.
Good Reads. Quotes About Thinking. Accessed February 14th, 2013.
Quote Garden. Quotations About Thinking. Accessed February 14th, 2013.
ThoughtFormz. Quotes About Thinking. Accessed February 14th, 2013.
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