John Churton Collins Quotes

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown

Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.

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

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

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.

Make the decision and say, "I'm not letting that worry in. I'm done being upset when my plans don't work out. I'm not letting that stress in." Negative thoughts will still come to your mind, but you don't have to let them into your spirit.

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.

The more meditation goes deep, the more you will become master of your own thoughts. You will say, "Stop!" and the mind stops. You will say, "Move!" and the mind begins to move. Once this capacity comes to you, you will not fall down again. Unless this is achieved, if you discontinue meditation, soon every result will be washed away.

The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

You control the doorway to your mind.

Take complete control over the messages you allow into your conscious mind.

The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go...When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

I don't torture myself.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

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

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.

There's a lot around us that we can't control, but my body, my mind, and my soul are pretty much the only things that I can.

I have received a great deal of benefit from the simple yet difficult practice of learning to stop the internal voice in my head. I learned that the voice isn't me, and I don't need to keep rethinking events of the past nor overthink plans for the future. This skill has helped me both to focus and to pause before responding to unexpected events.