personal development on Thought

We sow a thought and reap an act; We sow an act and reap a habit; We sow a habit and reap a character; We sow a character and reap a destiny.

A remarkable aspect of your mental life is that you are rarely stumped.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

The average person has more than thirty thousand thoughts per day. Of those, so many are negative that “according to researchers, the vast majority of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct r...

In the first chapter of her book, Get Out of Your Head , author Jennie Allen shares a vulnerable and honest moment from her own life about just how hard it can be to focus in a world of distraction...

The desert saints said that the beginning of renouncing a thought is simply noticing it. That is part of what I’m doing in my quarter hours—I am noticing, and naming, and then, for a few minutes, quar...

Too often we give real estate to things in our lives that either haven’t earned their land or were never meant to occupy important space in the first place.

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

In recent years, an entire discipline of modern psychology has developed called cognitive behavioral therapy. This breakthrough teaching reveals that many problems, from eating disorders to relational...

The greatest spiritual battle of our generation is being fought between our ears.

But it’s not so simple, that sort of “quiet hour”. It has to be learned. A lot of unimportant inner litter and bits and pieces have to be swept out first. Even a small head can be piled high inside wi...

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

There is no way out of one’s inner life, so one had better get into it. On the inward and downward spiritual journey, the only way out is through.

“A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.”

"Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”

Habits are the thought and emotional patterns engraved on our minds. These internal habit patterns play just as forceful a role as external influences on our actions – in fact, perhaps more so.

The insight that we can exercise some control over our thoughts and feelings is deep in Christianity.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone...

Once, a bird flew into our tiny house and wouldn’t fly out. It took more than an hour for our whole family working together to catch that silly little sparrow. Shooting the bird with a BB gun? Easy. B...

Live thoughtfully today and you won't have to live regretfully tomorrow.

Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbea...

Who would have thought my shrivel’d heart Could have recovered greenness?

Many first-century Jews thought of themselves as living in a continuing narrative stretching from earliest times, through ancient prophecies, and on toward a climactic moment of deliverance which migh...

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.

One thing is certain: if you don’t shape your life, it will be shaped for you. And to shape your life, you need to know how to shape your mind—you need mind-management.

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.