Quotes About Mindset

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

Being happy means you've decided to accept the imperfections and get on with it anyway.

We don't have control over our lives. We just have control over how we take things.

The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world.

I was always graceful and cheerful, empty-minded, as one now perfects servility

Food simply isn't important to me.

The fun-seekers, I noted, were spontaneous and flexible. They approached each day and each situation with a willingness to ride whatever wave came along, just for the experience of it. The complainers, on the other hand, would only catch a wave if it was exactly to their liking. Anything else drew loud protestations about how it was not what they expected.

to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.

life, we don't get what we ask for. We get what we believe. And

In life, we don't get what we ask for. We get what we believe. And what we believe about ourselves shows up in our energy.

Realistically, being positive isn't always being realistic.

The day will only be as good as the thoughts you have.

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.

virtude da vossa geração é a atividade intelectual; seu vício é a indiferença moral.

He felt poor, as well, although he didn't consider himself poor. He considered himself free.

Wouldn't that be an incredibly stupid thing to do? To say 'I never want to smoke again', then spend the rest of your life saying 'I'd love a cigarette.' That's what smokers who use the Willpower Method do. No wonder they feel so miserable. They spend the rest of their lives desperately moping for something that they desperately hope they will never have.

The main reason that smokers find it difficult to quit is that they believe that they are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It is absolutely essential to understand that there is nothing to 'give up'.

Quite simply, the key to being a happy non-smoker is to remove the desire to smoke. With no desire to smoke, it takes no Willpower not to do so.

Just one cigarette' is a myth you must get out of your mind.

A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.