Quotes About Mindset

Just 'cause trouble comes visiting doesn't mean you have to offer it a place to sit down.

The past is the same as the present to her, as precious and as close at hand. After all, if you think about one memory for most of a day, is that not your present? Some people live in the now; some people prefer to reside in the past—either choice is valid.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Je vais te dire quelque chose, mon ami: c'est plus facile d'être malheureux qu'heureux, et moi, tu m'entends, je n'aime pas les gens qui choisissent la facilitê, je n'aime pas les geignards! Sois heureux, merde! Fais ce qu'il faut pour être heureux!

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.

Plant a thought, harvest an act," they sang. "Plant an act, harvest a habit; plant a habit, harvest a character; plant a character, harvest a destiny.

There's a time in your life when you have to stop looking back and start looking forward because otherwise you're going to walk down the road one day and bump into a lamppost. But it's not easy.

Think of life as a terminal illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

Meditation is not something that should be done in a particular position at a particular time. It is an awareness and an attitude that must persist throughout the day.

French women seem less confused, less tired, less aggressive, less angry than American women. She sums them up in one word: happier. Ms.

It is not the burdens and resentments we pick up that keep us derailed, but our continuing to tote them.

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

what she calls "Russian fatalism": "It comes from our history, from hundreds of years

I used to float along in all of this, like a leaf on a coursing stream, but i am heavier now, less easily moved, more resolute and steadfast. I am no longer in pursuit of happiness. As I stand here at my front door, key in hand, I think it is just possible that happiness, at least for now, today, this hour, may be in pursuit of me.

How much can a dragon carry? As much as it thinks it can

Today, the public mindset is beginning to shift away from a medical model of disability towards a recognition that context and self-awareness as a learner both play a huge role in whether any given condition is disabling or not.10

Don't wish me happiness I don't expect to be happy all the time... It's gotton beyond that somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor. I will need them all.

Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at things yourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not.

Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at things yourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not.

Now it's up to all of us, women and men alike, to make the next big push toward equality between men and women. We'll have to start by changing how we think.

We can only change and bring about change if we can genuinely open our minds to new thoughts and possibilities, for everyone.

Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans; it's an open mind.—GAIL RUBIN BERENY