You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.
Our interpretations through the years and generations have always changed, but the emotions, ideas, and the thoughts of the composers are still with us, and these are the premise of the music. The time factor has little to do with it because, after all, it is about human feeling, the Universe and who we are as people.
Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.
Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like music, like art, but there's always that gap.
Let us all resign ourselves into His hands, and pray that in all things He may guide us to do His Holy Will. . . When thoughts of this or that come I turn to Him and say: "Only what you will, my God. Use me as You will".
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.
Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.
It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.
As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.
Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.
Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.
There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.
The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good
The roads to the stars are open only to those who grasp the great thoughts!
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.
Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.