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Think your own thoughts. -- Lydia Lunch
Have faith in your own thoughts. -- Brooke Shields
I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes. -- Dave Chappelle
I don't like being left to my own thoughts. -- David Sedaris
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick. -- Ben Jonson
I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts. -- Dwight Yoakam
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. -- Rene Descartes
The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts. -- Bryant H. McGill
I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them. -- Katherine Heigl
I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts. -- David Walliams
My own thoughts Are my companions. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Protect yourself......from your own thoughts. -- Rumi
Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy! -- Tae Yun Kim
Life reflects your own thoughts back to you. -- Napoleon Hill
Make converts to your own thoughts and opinions. -- Oswald Chambers
You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts ... -- Nikki Giovanni
The world's deadliest poison, can be your own thoughts. -- David L. Felten
Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions. -- Jane Austen
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. -- Charlie Parker
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick -- Ben Jonson
Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts. -- Francois Fenelon
Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts -- Earl Nightingale
It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation. -- Marianne Williamson
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It is our own thoughts that lead us into trouble, not other people. -- Gautama Buddha
The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts. -- Rene Descartes
Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein
What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it? -- Patricia Highsmith
When we transcend our own thoughts, we get in touch with the womb of creation. -- Deepak Chopra
I am neither a philosopher nor a thinker, but simply follower of my own thoughts. -- M.F. Moonzajer
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. -- Khalil Gibran
It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted. -- Isak Dinesen
Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions. -- Eric Thomas
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds. -- Victor Hugo
God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us. -- Anne Bronte
[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees. -- Penelope Gilliatt
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself. -- Francois Rabelais
We have our own thoughts, and if we want others to know them, we must tell them. -- Henry Cloud
Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew! -- Lady G
Learning how to listen to others and how to listen to your own thoughts is the ultimate process. -- Eyvind Kang
It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts. -- Nic Sheff
I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them. -- Berthold Auerbach
You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind. -- Louise Hay
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. -- James Russell Lowell
I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out. -- John Curran
Man is blind by its own thoughts. Thought is the product of the past and with that past he looks. -- Alexandre Branco Martins
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. -- James Lane Allen
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls. -- Jean Rostand
I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information. -- Christian Slater
Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have to get out of this room as soon as possible, or my own thoughts will wage war against me. -- Tahereh Mafi
He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone? -- Angel Olsen
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts. -- Teresa of Avila
Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day. -- Derek Parfit
You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write. -- Nikki Giovanni
I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts. -- Alexander Pope
Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us? -- Henry David Thoreau
You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts -- Napoleon Hill
You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego. -- Krishna Das
Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives. -- Kourtney Kardashian
I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts. -- Maya Angelou
To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts. -- John Donne
When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts. -- Susan B. Anthony
He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts. -- Henry David Thoreau
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern. -- William James
We make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts. -- Emmet Fox
No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account. -- Winston Churchill
To this very day, I do not know what he (Hitler) thought or knew or really wanted. I only knew my own thoughts and suspicions. -- Alfred Jodl
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As a designer, you always take facets of different people and you mix them together with your own thoughts and information and creativity and passion. -- Nicki Minaj
I'm interested in getting deep into a person's consciousness and doing so in ways in which the narrator is secondary to the character's own thoughts. -- Philipp Meyer
The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot. -- Ludwig von Mises
I've seen women-and men too, sometimes-as canna bear the sound of their own thoughts, and they maybe dinna make such good matches with those who can. -- Diana Gabaldon
I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking. -- Rachel Zucker
We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write. -- Susan B. Anthony
Rumination tends to be eased if we learn to be mindful; if we are able to be aware of, and understand how our own thoughts work. -- Peter Kinderman
In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts. -- Shirley Ann Grau
The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage. -- Joe Rogan
I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace. -- Aleksandar Hemon
The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you. -- Gautama Buddha
Where [a]can you trust your own thoughts and your own intentions? Everywhere, hopefully, but it isn't always that easy. Sometimes, you have to help yourself along. -- Val Kilmer
You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you. -- Ginger Rogers
She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions. -- Jane Austen
Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad. And your definition determines your response. -- Stella Payton
He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms. -- Willis George Emerson
It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind. -- Helen Keller
Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road. -- John Locke
As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings. -- Marty Nemko
A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude. -- Thomas Browne
The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge. -- H. G. Wells
For me, staying in place might mean staying with my own thoughts, even if the body keeps traveling. I might be experiencing new things, but I'm also here, with myself. -- Rirkrit Tiravanija
There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river. -- Vash Young
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past. -- Eckhart Tolle
Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others. -- Alan Kay
The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts. -- Byron Katie
Your happiness depends upon your very own thoughts. No one else can think your thoughts for you. Deliberately think thoughts of what you want because they're the thoughts that make you happy. -- Rhonda Byrne
I always worry that me by myself, I'm doing the same thing I'm always doing and become too lazy and conservative in what I do, or too incestuous in my own thoughts. -- Saschka Unseld
Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story. -- Caitlin Flanagan
It is possible to be solitary in one's mind while living in a crowd, and it is possible for one who is solitary to live in the crowd of his own thoughts. -- Syncletica of Alexandria
Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to. -- Leo Tolstoy
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts. -- H. L. Mencken
Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human. -- Bo Bennett
Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation whatever is good or bad. And your definition determines your response. -- Stella Payton
Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts. -- Joseph Murphy
Ideally, you would live in an area that is not necessarily in the middle of the country, out in the woods, because you can isolate yourself there and get stuck in your own thoughts. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation. -- James Allen
Basically I can't sleep without every single song I'm writing repeating endlessly, but I'm loving it again. Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew! -- Lady Gaga
If you do nursing or that type of work long enough, you become a healer in your own thoughts. You're cycling love, so you can stay a little more sane in the midst of it. -- Linda Perhacs
The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts. -- David Edward Kirk
We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's thought that help us to do so. -- Alain de Botton
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts. -- Axel Munthe
It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss. -- Lech Walesa
The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts. -- David Edward Kirk
The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are always antagonized. Do not mind that. If a thing is good it will survive. -- Gertrude Kasebier
We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who are terrified of silence, of being alone with their own thoughts ... -- Eda LeShan

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