Quotes About Mindset

Such attachment to past failures has been described by Martin Seligman as "learned helplessness.

I can go through life as a victim, blaming others for my misfortunes, and experiencing frustration over my condition. Or I can choose to be an active agent and do what I can do to bring about a positive change in my life.

Whatever happens, whether you succeed or you fail, people with high expectations always feel better, because how we feel — when we get dumped or we win employee of the month — depends on how we interpret that event.

Any place is a palace if your heart decides so.

I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.

If you think you're a success, you will be a success; if you think you deserve nothing but crap, you'll get nothing but crap. Your inner reality shapes your outer one, every day of your life.

If you put your energy into how much a fall would hurt, you're already half way down.

what you get out of life is mostly what you planted. Not always, no, but mostly. If you think you're a success, you will be a success; if you think you deserve nothing but crap, you'll get nothing but crap. Your inner reality shapes your outer one, every day of your life. Do you follow me?

what you get out of life is mostly what you planted. Not always, no, but mostly. If you think you're a success, you will be a success; if you think you deserve nothing but crap, you'll get nothing but crap. Your inner reality shapes your outer one, every day of your life.

Kevin was a child. He never grew up. Thirty-seven years old and he still figured everything in the world was going to go the way he thought it should; it never hit him that the world might work its own way, whether that suited him or not.

He who loses his head, loses,

Seven hours, fifteen minutes and counting… Shifting into high gear, Zoe started with the obvious—her clothes, her laptop, most of her toiletries. Most because, after eight years in the house, there was a lot that had accumulated simply because she couldn't throw things out. Zoe wasn't a hoarder by any stretch, but this was a sad fact: when one partner splurged at every opportunity, the other developed a mindset of scarcity. Even

He used to think things like, This organic soymilk will make me healthy and that'll make my brain work better and that'll improve my writing . Also things like, The less I eat the less money I spend on publicly owned companies the less pain and suffering will exist in the world . Now he thinks things like, It is impossible to be happy . Why would anyone think that?

To her lover a beautiful woman is a delight; / To a monk she's a distraction; / To a mosquito, a good meal. It makes the point well: how things seem depends on the lens or filter through which we look at them.

Two qualities are essential to mindfulness: even-hovering attention and tenacity.

We let the schema define our experience.

We can change habits at any of four levels: our thoughts, our emotions, our behavior, and our relationships.

This would explain how our schemas shape so powerfully the way things seem, almost as though they cast a spell over us.

The more often we repeat a mental pattern, the more likely it becomes in the future;

A pithy Zen aphorism goes like this: To her lover a beautiful woman is a delight; / To a monk she's a distraction; / To a mosquito, a good meal. It makes the point well: how things seem depends on the lens or filter through which we look at them.

A schema represents an outmoded holdover from earlier learning. In other words, remind yourself, "I'm having this reaction because of what I learned to do back then, not because of what's actually happening right now.

These emotional habits operate as powerful lenses on our reality, leading us to mistake how things seem for how they actually are.

sometimes few thoughts gives pain but that doesnt mean it is a curse

If you accept failure, then you will identify with being defeated.