Quotes About Mindset

If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good. CXXIII

First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do

You are invincible if nothing outside the will can disconcert you.

When anyone provokes you, remember that it is actually your own opinion provoking you. It is not the person who insults or attacks you who torments your mind, but the view you take of these things. Do not be fooled by how things first appear. With time and greater perspective, you can regain inner peace.

fear comes from what you expect, but grief from that which is present.

Everything, you see, that you throw at me I will transform into a blessing, a boon, something dignified - even enviable.

Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic.

We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization?

There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves. Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us. Hence it is that people with a sense of fulfillment think it a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.

Strength of faith, as Bergson pointed out, manifests itself not in moving mountains but in not seeing mountains to move.

fear is weakness uncontrolled!

Denial is a defense mechanism, all about self-preservation.

People who are accomplished at anything have learned that "perfect" is the enemy of the good.

It's not the disease or infirmity that heals, it's the person.

We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it.

And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision.

L'ideale è un cauto ottimismo. Ma nel mio caso si tratta piuttosto di cauto pessimismo.

C'est une maladie d'être optimiste? Non, c'est une maladie de l'être trop. L'excès devient pathologique.

Meglio accendere la luce che lamentarsi del buio»

M'sieur Ibrahim, quand je dis que c'est un truc de gens riches, le sourire, je veux dire que c'est un truc pour les gens heureux. - Eh bien, c'est là que tu te trompes. C'est sourire, qui rend heureux. [- M. Ibrahim, when I say a smile is a rich people thing, I mean it's a happy people thing. - Well, that's where you're wrong. Smiling is what makes you happy.]

Grudges are like superstitions. You know they don't make sense, but you cling to them, anyway." We

I've often thought madness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

It's you versus you." Meaning, you're the only thing standing in your own way.