Quotes About Mindset

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Once we truly know that life is difficult — once we truly understand and accept it — then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

Good, don't think. Thinking is highly overrated.

Worry is throwing good shillings at trouble that hasn't happened yet.

much of life requires waiting and we have a choice to do it happily or miserably.

it has to do with whether you think intelligence is fixed (you're born as smart as you'll ever be) or changeable (you can get smarter throughout life). When provided with evidence that the brain can grow new pathways, fixed-orientation freshman college students on the verge of dropping out switched to a growth orientation and graduated.

lo que nos ocurre y se nos presenta siempre es una bendición, incluso aunque no lo parezca.

En cuanto formamos una opinión o un juicio, nos estancamos; nos esclavizamos.

El doctor Ihaleakalá siempre dice: «Un problema no es un problema, a menos que digamos que lo es, y el problema no es el problema. El problema es cómo reaccionamos al problema».

Lo que sí necesitamos es creer en nosotros mismos y en el poder que está adentro nuestro. Para acceder a él, debemos renunciar a muchas creencias, opiniones y juicios sobre nosotros mismos para querernos y aceptarnos tal cual somos. Sé que esto no es algo fácil. Ni siquiera sabemos conscientemente cuáles son las creencias que nos están afectando, pero con el proceso que enseño en este libro, no es necesario conocerlas, sino dar permiso para que se vayan.

Average people you say YOU ARE FULL OF YOURSELF just because you approach everything with positive attitude, and you never feel sorry for yourself.

When are you going to stop thinking about things that don't matter and start thinking about what lies ahead for you?

The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

Stop thinking like a madman, or you will end up acting like an ass.

Flexibility is a frame of mind. It is what allows us to choose the best response from a raft of different possibilities. Flexibility in parenting does not mean you should become a pushover. There is a delicate tightrope to be walked between your child's need for structure and the importance of considering content and context when you make decisions. But without flexibility, you are unlikely to be a successful parent and will certainly not be an empathic or introspective one.

If insanity is contagious, and it is, so is sanity. Sanity is more contagious than insanity. It's just that there aren't enough carriers. Become a source of infectious sanity.

I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world." (L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. [Quoted by Theodore Sorensen in 'Kennedy']

His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot possess this forever, therefore I am sad.

The best thing we can do to get rid of victim thinking in our world is to get rid of it in ourselves. The first QBQ guideline says all

Stress is a choice.

Focusing on what we don't have is a waste of time and energy. To really make a difference, let's instead focus out energy on succeeding within the box.

No matter what we're trying to accomplish, there's always a barrier of some kind to overcome, and it's often something over which we have no control. Instead of focusing on the barriers, let's work to become so good that we'll succeed no matter how many bad calls the ref may throw at us.