Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
Dogs never bite me - just humans.
There are times when we are just not very kind to ourselves. The problem with our negative thoughts is that the latest science has revealed that thoughts are very powerful, even impacting us physically.
When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.