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Quotes About Mindset

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
~ William Faulkner
But those rich town ladies can change their minds. Poor folks cant.
~ William Faulkner
Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have.
~ William Goldman
You just keep thinking, Butch; that's what you're good at.
~ William Goldman
any experience is profitable if you allow it to be, all actions are profitable, no matter how badly you may suffer from them.
~ William Goldman
Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have.
~ William Goldman
That is perhaps the greatest insight that the ancient Roman Stoics championed for humanity. There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. And our attitudes are up to us.
~ William J. Bennett
I don't sing because I'm happy. I'm happy because I sing.
~ William James
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
~ William James
We need only in cold blood ACT as if the thing in question were real, and keep acting as if it were real, and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.
~ William James
The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
~ William James
Theologians have by this time stretched their minds so as to embrace the darwinian facts, and yet to interpret them as still showing divine purpose. It used to be a question of purpose AGAINST mechanism, of one OR the other. It was as if one should say My shoes are evidently designed to fit my feet, hence it is impossible that they should have been produced by machinery.
~ William James
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
~ William James
I will assume for the present---until next year---that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
~ William James
The finally victorious way of looking at things will be the most completely IMPRESSIVE way to the normal run of minds.
~ William James
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
~ William James
Be spiritually independent enough that your relationship with the Savior doesn't depend on your circumstances or on what other people say and do.
~ Chieko N. Okazaki
A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.
~ China Mieville
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
~ Chinese proverb
That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
~ Chinese proverb
Limitations are but boundaries in our minds
~ Chinese proverb
Men trip not on mountains, they trip on molehills.
~ Chinese Proverbs
I don't care about age very much.
~ Chinua Achebe
EVENT + REACTION = OUTCOME Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it. Yet it isn't the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it's our beliefs that create our response.
~ Chip Conley