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.

The very greatest things - great thoughts discoveries inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship often pondered over in sorrow and at length established with difficulty.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky the great ocean and the highest peak empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind but great actions speak to all mankind.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts the better will be his world and the world at large.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

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

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor when to God who is the searcher of our hearts all our privacies are open?

Great thoughts and a pure heart that is what we should ask from God.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past which can bridge to the future.

If we examine our thoughts we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

What matters is to live in the present live now for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists for you created its pattern by your past.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true correct and of honor - no matter the personal price.

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.