Paul Valery Quotes

Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future.

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.

Make a decision that from now on, your thoughts do not run you, you run your thoughts. From now on, your mind is not the captain of your ship, you are the captain of the ship, and your mind works for you.

Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes 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.

You either control your mind or it controls you.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

Usually, we find it difficult to control our mind. It seems as if our mind is like a balloon in the wind - blown here and there by external circumstances.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

There are thoughts we must not think.

The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?

I'm going to fight the force of emotions by that of intellect

Racing thoughts was the biggest hurdle to consistent meditation for me. I could sit down, but then I was left with this interior world of thoughts.

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.