Quotes About Mindset

Human beings don't cultivate ideas. On the contrary…Ideas cultivate us.

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

Aim low and you won't be disappointed.

If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? Am I just under a spell that says nothing is ever good enough?

You can't be beautiful until you feel beautiful.

You can't be beautiful, Brandy says about a thousand times, until you feel beautiful.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer

Mark my words: Being dead isn't all sitting around in remorseful reflection and bitter self-recrimination. Death, like life, is what you make of it.

The cancer I don't have is everywhere, now.

Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

If you can change the way people think, she said. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. And that's the only lasting thing you can create.

what makes life feel like Hell is our expectation that it should last forever.

Jestli nÄ›co musíme udÄ›lat, tak rozházet lidem jejich ubohá paradigmata totožnosti.

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When they had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving them an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy.

Your attitude will determine the quality of your life.

I heard that if you complain it reprograms your brain like a computer virus and it just makes you more and more unhappy, so I'm going to stay positive because I bet the opposite is true, too.

The Muse is not real. Relying on the Muse is like leaning on a crutch made of playing cards.

heard that if you complain it reprograms your brain like a computer virus and it just makes you more and more unhappy, so I'm going to stay positive because I bet the opposite is true, too.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.' " Colleen's face scrunched up. "What Bible passage is that?" "It's not the Bible, it's Isaac Asimov.

Happiness is active, not passive; it's a decision, not an award someone gives you. Happiness takes adjustment. When something is broken, you adjust that thing with a wrench, a screwdriver, maybe a flamethrower.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

So: now a new year, a new beginning. I've vowed not to complain. I'm too good at it, and need to practice other skills. I've also vowed to work very hard...