Quotes About Mindset

Depressed people have an urge to make good things into ugly messes to better match their state of mind.

Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

People nowadays take time far more seriously than eternity. – Thomas Kelly

But if men will not forego all pre-imbibed opinions, prejudices, and conceptions of mind, however rivetted into them by traditions, custom, veneration of elders, and secular advantages, to hearken unto and receive whatever he shall speak unto them, and that with a humble, lowly frame of heart, they will never learn the truth, nor attain a "full assurance of understanding" in the mysteries of God.

To live in delusion is to live in the comfort of ideology.

Never ever say: It couldn't be worse.

I mean, the guy could fall in a barrel of titties and come out suckin' his thumb.

lost a tire. He didn't take the time to worry

the guy could fall in a barrel of titties and come out suckin' his thumb.

Don't bring a spoon to a toothbrush fight

You can be happy anywhere, if you have the right point of view. And the ability to ignore the smell of an entire planet.

Fighting someone who was intimately aware of your internal state of mind made it an interesting extra challenge.

She shrugged. "I don't mind getting old." "I didn't mind getting old when I was young, either," I said. "It's the being old now that's getting to me." Her

I don't mind getting old." "I didn't mind getting old when I was young, either," I said. "It's the being old now that's getting to me.

Our thinking minds are so full of beliefs about how things "should be" rather than how things "are" that we refuse to accept reality as it is. We

It's an illusion to think that a choice is open to us, unless we are open to that choice.

Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

By whipping himself he protected himself against whipping by someone else.

An' it all just amounts to what you tell yourself.

Try to believe that things are neither so good nor so bad as they seem to you now.

It's because I've stopped seeing. When that happens you think you'll never see again.

It is a hard thing to live any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

You're getting well," Samuel said. "Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But