"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."

-- Goethe

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

-- Marcus Aurelius

"Not believing your own thoughts, you are free from the primal desire: the thought that reality should be different than it is."

-- Byron Katie

"The less credence we give to our minds ongoing activity, the more we detach from identifying with that activity, the less it wears us out."

-- Brad Blanton

"Never trust a thought you come upon sitting down."

-- Nietzsche

"To see the thought of wanting freedom as it arises is different from thinking."

-- Toni Packer

"Even if eighty-fur thousand random thoughts arise and disappear, as long as the individual does not get involved in them but lets go of them, then each thought will become the light of spiritual power, of wisdom."

-- Zen Master Ejo

"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."

-- Soren Kierkegaard

"The normal mistake that we all make is to identify ourselves with some content of consciousness rather than with consciousness itself."

-- Roberto Assagioli

"Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

-- Marcus Aurelius