#thoughts

Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#infatuation #love #sensation #thoughts #dreams

First thoughts are not always the best. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#best #first #thoughts

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#become #cannot #controlling #desire #dominant

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#take #thoughts #today #tomorrow #where

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#bear #fruit #good #good thoughts #thoughts

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#bring #efforts #inevitably #joyfully #knowing

The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard. ↗

— Sebastian Barry

#death #life #philosophical #thoughts #death

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#answers #being #being alone #content #dilemmas

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts. ↗

— John Calvin

#blessings #exceed #expect #god #his

When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#against #anyone #bring #ever #filled