Quotes About Mindset

People need to concentrate on what's right about themselves. If you only think about what's wrong, or about all the mistakes you've made, you get paralyzed. Are you going to fill up your head with garbage—everything you don't like about yourself—or are you going to be proud of who you are?

I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else.

It is one thing to renounce willfulness, another to be robbed of willingness.

Men often become what they are told they are. If you repeatedly tell a man he is a slave, he will eventually forget how to think as a free man, although I am optimist enough to hope that there is something in a man that will always remain free.

I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we allow ourselves to make of them that count.

Hardly anyone believes himself to be against thought and culture," Hofstadter writes. "Men do not rise in the morning, grin at themselves in their mirrors, and say: 'Ah, today I shall torment an intellectual and strangle an idea!'"5

We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

There is nothing to be gained by trying to change reality. I know this. Completely. And yet. And. Yet.

Sylvia, on the other hand, looks like she eats stress as an amuse-bouche and turns problems into cocktails.

I am a chronic apologizer. It doesn't matter if I think I've done something wrong or not.

Her father's words suddenly came to her, Considering people who are undergoing situations much worse than yours doesn't make yours any easier, but it can help to change your perspective.

Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. The choice is yours.

You're only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that's the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won't but you can't define yourself by their opinions.

boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.

Maybe it was the lack of stimulation that made you so productive and sort of... determined.

That's the difference between people like you and people like me. You think everything's sad. Because all you do is THINK about stuff all the time. If you only think about stuff half the time you're way less sad. What do you do the other half of the time? When you're not thinking? Uh, I don't know, maybe have a life?

I realized that in depression, nothing matters," she said. "And in sadness, everything matters.

Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

Most people think they're smarter than me," said Rodriguez. He winked at me. "And that's what gives me the edge.

Venting, even just a little, keeps the apeshits away".

You know, every time someone says that they'll try, I think of that scene in The Empire Strikes Back with Luke Skywalker and Yoda. You know, the one where Yoda says, 'Try not. Do or do not.

People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic.

Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it... And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.