Quotes About Mindset

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days — you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.

The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?

We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

I look at it this way. I'm not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder.

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requirement.

The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane.

[T]he way he treats his body, you'd think he was renting.

It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour.

Fickle Fortune: A Fragment Though fickle Fortune has deceived me, She pormis'd fair and perform'd but ill; Of mistress, friends, and wealth bereav'd me, Yet I bear a heart shall support me still. I'll act with prudence as far 's I'm able, But if success I must never find, Then come misfortune, I bid thee welcome, I'll meet thee with an undaunted mind.

Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,the one to be held by, the other not.

be aware of the Emotional Pitfalls—complacency, boredom, grandiosity, and the like—that continually threaten to derail or block our progress.

Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.

Albert Einstein called the intuitive or metaphoric mind a sacred gift. He added that the rational mind was a faithful servant. It is paradoxical that in the context of modern life we have begun to worship the servant and defile the divine. —Bob Samples, The Metaphoric Mind