Quotes About Mindset

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

on questioning why she looked so sad, she would remark, 'My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.' 'That's Montaigne, isn't it?' And she would give the tiniest nod. 'I quote others only in order the better to express myself,' she'd say, which was itself, I sensed, another quote.

Don't attach yourself to people, and try to feel as little as you possibly can for those you do meet. Because otherwise you will slowly lose your mind .

The prison wasn't the place, but the perspective

that the prison wasn´t the place, but the perspective.

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.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it . . . but love it. Friedrich Nietzsche

Be depressed on Mondays and happy on Saturdays. Not the other way round. It will annoy people.

In mintea ta, schimba numele tuturor zilelor cu sambata. Si schimba numele muncii cu joaca.

I rarely said "I have depression" or "I am currently experiencing depression", because I imagined that depression was the sum of who I was... the trouble is, that I had a very binary view of things. I thought that you were either well or ill, sane or insane.

Pas op voor de kloof. De kloof tussen waar je bent en waar je wilt zijn. Alleen al door eraan te denken verwijd je de kloof. En ten slotte val je erin.

situations and chemistries didn't change, perspectives could. 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.

Sometimes regrets are just....a load of bullshit

You're overthinking it. I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.

You don't become a good person by believing you are a bad one.

We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.

not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try

Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

You have no control over who people think you are. So don't worry.

That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective

It seems that worrying about growing old is a sign you are young. And the main reason to be optimistic about old age is that old people themselves are. Resilience seems to grow.

In a familiar place, your mind focuses solely on itself. There is nothing new it needs to notice about your bedroom. No potential external threats, just internal ones. By forcing yourself into a new physical space, preferably in a different country, you end up inevitably focusing a bit more on the world outside your head