Quotes About Mindset

If only you could tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry, and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade.  It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Happiness does not depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude

Every day is a new life to a wise man.

For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.

It has been said that nearly all of our worries and unhappiness come from our imagination and not from reality.

You may be right, dead right, as you speed along in your argument; but as far as changing another's mind is concerned, you will probably be just as futile as if you were wrong.

There is nothing either good or bad," said Shakespeare, "but thinking makes it so.

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means—we have everything to gain!

Schopenhauer said: We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack.

If you believe you will fail, there is no hope for you. You will.

As you and I march across the decades of time, we are going to meet a lot of unpleasant situations that are so. They cannot be otherwise. We have our choice. We can either accept them as inevitable and adjust ourselves to them, or we can ruin our lives with rebellion and maybe end up with a nervous breakdown.

Count your blessings—not your troubles!

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

All things are ready if the mind be so.

Il est certain que le plus sûr moyen de connaître le bonheur serait de contrôler nos pensées. La félicité ne dépend pas des conditions extérieures, elle est régie par notre attitude mentale.

Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. …

Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions. It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

Hay que evitar siempre el ángulo agudo.