“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”

“Sometimes
when you are trying
not to think about something
it keeps popping back in your head
you can't help it
you think about it
and
think about it
and
think about it
until your brain
feels like
a squashed pea.”

Sharon Creech Love That Dog

“Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice

“What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

“What others think about you is none of your business.”

Jack Canfield (1944) American writer

“Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.”

Dogen (1200–1253) Japanese Zen buddhist teacher

“You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.”

Alberto Moravia (1907–1990) Italian writer and journalist

“You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

“Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.”

Fay Weldon (1931) English author, essayist and playwright

“I was walking home the other night, and I was thinking about it, and do you worry that when you're old you will be on your own?”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer