Quotes About Mindset

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

The opening trick to becoming is to convince yourself that you already are

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Journal writing is, foremost, a way to order and reframe perspective.

Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Don't worry about me. I'm going to learn to be happy.

It's not about what you've done; it's how you've experienced whatever has happened to you. Matt Lawrence in The Overachievers

Someone else's success is not your failure.

The little troubles and worries of life, so many of which we meet, may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping stones to a noble character.

The Frankfurt School masterminds for indoctrination into collectivist mindsets. Those men's understanding of human psychology was infallible: Ideas that the general public sees and hears on a repetitive basis will eventually achieve agreement with the ideas put forth or impair the individual judgment necessary to refute them.

Trebuie s? ai un spirit pesimist; cel optimist e lamentabil, grotesc ?i stupid. "Gânde?te pozitiv!" Cum adic?, s? gândesc în mod deliberat fals, numai ca s? am o stare pozitiv?, care s? plac? cui ?i cui s? fac? un bine? Trebuie s? fii apt s? prive?ti realitatea exact a?a cum e, frumoas? sau pocit?.

but instead of focusing inwardly like a victim—What is going to happen to me?—the sergeant retained his warrior mindset and focused externally on stopping the threat.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Being afraid of failure isn't at all the same thing as embracing success. In fact, the former gets in the way of the latter.

The most significant factor in an individual's ability to remain in good health may be a sense of control over the events of life," one psychologist has remarked.

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

Materialism is the metaphysics of those who refuse to be metaphysicians.