Quotes About Mindset

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito"—Dalai Lama.)

you want something, you go and get it. If you don't want that thing, you let it go and stop brooding.

Success, for any sane adult, is exactly equivalent to doing one's best. What that best may be, what its farthest reaches may include, we can discover only by freeing ourselves completely from the Will to Fail.

Old habits are strong and jealous. They will not be displaced easily if they get any warning that such plans are afoot; they will fight for their existence with subtlety and persuasiveness.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he asid, with a twinkle in his eye, 'It's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.'

Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor and philosopher, wrote, "Every morning when I leave my house, I say to myself, 'Today I shall meet an impudent man, an ungrateful one, one who talks too much. Therefore do not be surprised.

If you ask a negative, unanswerable question, you will get a negative, impractical answer. The question you ask determines the focus of your thinking, your focus determines your attitude, and your attitude determines your ability to take action.

Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.

If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know.

One of the most valuable things we can learn from open sexual lifestyles is that our programming is changeable.

A friend of ours, when she trips over some surprisingly intense emotional response, says, philosophically, "Oh well—AFOG," which stands, she says, for Another Fucking Opportunity for Growth.

Victory always starts in the head... It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmation that destiny can do nothing but obey.

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." —Albert Einstein

When I have White, I win because I am white. When I have Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov.

self-esteem through effort.

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half- way to meet it.

Optimal results are not achievable without optimal behavior.

biggest roadblocks you encounter in life are the ones you construct for yourself.

There are many attitudes that we all take in our lives, some of which dominate at one point in our lives and recede in another. But a life lived without gratitude is not a life properly lived. It is a life that is lived off-kilter: one in which, incapable of realizing what you have to be thankful for, you are left with nothing but your resentments and can be contented by nothing but revenge.

Without gratitude, the prevailing attitudes of life are blame and resentment.

Working to keep negative information out during a difficult conversation is like trying to swim without getting wet.

Telling someone to change makes it less rather than more likely that they will.

People who insist upon dressing casually also want to think casually. And in a fallen world, thinking casually means being wrong more often than not.