Quotes About Mindset

Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you.

In your mind, change the name of every day to Saturday. And change the name of work to play.

Beware of the gap. The gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it. And you end up falling through.

We only know what we perceive. Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The problem is not that the world is a mess, but that we expect it to be otherwise.

It is easier to learn to be soaked and happy than to learn how to stop the rain.

Forcing yourself to see the world through love's gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

There was no use trying to think of a way, because it was impossible. And the only way you could make something impossible real wasn't through logic or sensible thinking. No. It was to believe it could be done.

As Hamlet said to Rosencrantz, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

an ordinary life is not a guarantee of happiness.

the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.

Feeling you have no time doesn't mean you have no time. Feeling you are ugly doesn't mean you are ugly. Feeling anxious doesn't mean you need to be anxious. Feeling you haven't achieved enough doesn't mean you haven't achieved enough. Feeling you lack things doesn't make you less complete.

One thing mental illness taught me is that progress is a matter of acceptance. Only by accepting a situation can you change it. You have to learn not to be shocked by the shock. Not to be in a state of panic about the panic. To change what you can change and not get frustrated by what you can't.

So the fact that this book exists is proof that depression lies. Depression makes you think things that are wrong.

A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it. It's sometimes more dangerous to shy away. You can't live your life in fear. You have to be prepared to get on your board and stand on your feet. If you are in the barrel of a wave you have to ignore the fear. You have to be in that moment. You have to carve on through. You get scared, and the next thing you know you are off your board and smashing your head on a rock. I'm never going to live in fear.

The world is real, but your world is subjective. Changing your perspective changes your planet.

But it is helpful to remember that our perspective is our world. And our external circumstances don't need to change in order for our perspective to change. And the forests we find ourselves in are metaphorical, and sometimes we are unable to escape them, but with a change of perspective we can live among the trees.

This was a life where she put four exclamation points in a row. That was probably what happier, less uptight people did.

It seems that worrying about growing old is a sign you are young.

Forcing yourself to see the world through love's gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

You will never live if you're looking for the meaning of life.

But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you're in.

Each of us has the power to enter a new world. All we have to do is change our mind.

the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment'.