Thoughts
Quotes - To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their
words, but watch their actions
“Wittgenstein
likes to assert: "Whereof we cannot speak we must be silent". But
skilfully using our hands and manipulating our thoughts can be plausible
options to make ourselves understood. So, if we can’t say it, we can show and
depict it. Whereof we cannot speak we can paint! ("Happy days are back
again")”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“Habit
rules the unreflecting herd.”
―
William Wordsworth
“There
are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.
There
are worse things than these miniature betrayals,
committed
or endured or suspected; there are worse things
than
not being able to sleep for thinking about them.
It
is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in
and
stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.”
―
Fleur Adcock
“If
brains could have orgasms, I'm pretty sure this was what it would feel like.”
―
Cora Carmack, Losing It
“Shrink
wrapped ideas and prefabricated thoughts are a result of sloth and laziness.
("Prêt-à -penser")”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“When
our thoughts are unsettled and our inner world is in a muddle, we may sharpen
our wits and try to recognize the invisible edges of our fractured stance. If
we seek to figure out, what our life story is all about, we may be able to put
the missing pieces in place and identify what is driving us, what we are
actually up to and why we are running like mad dogs, sometimes. (“On a doggy
day”)”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“I
was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not
words.”
―
Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
“As
light splinters into darkness, new thoughts may take over in the mind and allow
upbeat views to gain power. Thus and so, thoughtfulness readily opens a
blistering sky in the faltering shadow of unawareness. ("Absence of
Desire")”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“Men
use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to
conceal their thoughts.”
―
Voltaire
“Indicting
red squiggly lines in our thoughts may besiege our mind at some point. Before
they take possession of the framework and the outlines of our lives, we must
endeavor, from the outset, to track down the upsetting causes in the blurred
trenches of our inner selves. ("Unfulfilled meeting")”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“Meditation
means stirring the pool of the lame ducks in our minds and removing the slurry
in the stagnant water of our thoughts.( "Waiting for the pieces to fall
into place",)”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“What
we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we
are or will soon become.”
―
A.W. Tozer
“To
assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but
watch their actions.”
―
Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
“Thoughts
are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.”
―
Criss Jami, Killosophy
“I
feel as though, if I were to extend my hand just a little toward the pool where
the ideas ferment, I could grab at the idea and pull it out of the pool and
onto the floor where ideas must stand before the jury of the brain. There, it
must present itself, still from the pool, and a bit shivery because new ideas
are not given a towel to dry off with, towels being reserved for proven
theories; new ideas are simply pulled and stood up, and asked to explain
themselves - not a very pleasant thing really, which is why so many people go
into the room where the pool is. The exercise is exhausting not to mention a
bit difficult to watch, if you are at all a sympathetic creature. What was my
idea, anyways?”
―
Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“If
we hesitate between 'veiling' and 'revealing' our emotions or vacillate between
'shrouding' and 'disclosing' our thoughts, we must understand the nuts and
bolts of our individual construct and underpin the elasticity of our mental
frame. ("Unfulfilled meeting")”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“If
our thoughts are slumping down into a muddling pie of oblivion, we must empower
our minds to go beyond vain details or useless conventions. Scanning the reach
on the horizon and challenging our imagination can allow us to recognize the
essentials of our human condition and achieve harmony in our lives.
("Dirty
bike)”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“As
emotions may take apart bit by bit the rational blueprints in our imagination,
dreams may expose what is veiled in the safe haven of our thoughts and disclose
elements, which bring to light some baffling qualities that we might never have
presumed ("Only silence remained")”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“While
we encounter people and intuit their thoughts, and hear their words, we
construe and interpret what we perceive. In that way, perception can become
enlightenment and recognition. ("The Internet rescue")”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“You
are not what you are;
You
are darkness
Looking
for light within.”
―
Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
