Quotes About Mindset

Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.

Make friends with fear, Lucien always said, because it will not go away, and it will destroy you if left uncontrolled.

How do you survive for years in prison? You don't think about years, or months, or weeks. You think about today—how to get through it, how to survive it. When you wake up tomorrow, another day is behind you. The days add up; the weeks run together; the months become years. You realize how tough you are, how you can function and survive because you have no choice.

Mordecai was not one to worry about the things he couldn't change. His desk was covered with the battles he could win.

He was not the nostalgic type. You live life today, not tomorrow, certainly not yesterday, he always said.

We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed in feeling sorry for ourselves) behind. If we leave a place and take our selfishness with us, the cycle of problems starts all over again no matter where we go. But if we leave our selfishness behind, no matter where we are, things start to improve.

We are not forced to accept the things that grieve us

I am not saying that personal development is more important than winning; on the contrary, I am saying that enjoying the journey of self-discovery, by removing some of the pressure and angst associated with winning at all costs, is one way of helping you to win more often.

Impossible is for the unwilling

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.

paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It's getting hard to be someone But it all works out It doesn't matter much to me.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see

Like poles on tightropes, temperament makes the difference between slips and safe arrivals.

If one is fed, housed, and healthy, then debts, pride, conscience, standards, dignity, and what you will, will have to be laughed off....

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it

Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

A form of self-delusion.

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.

I'd been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me.

You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.