Quotes About Mindset

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;. If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster.

The Cop. She has a steel grid in front of her mind, and for anything in the outer world to reach her it first has to squeeze through the bars of that grid. Information has to be broken into small cubes; information and data packaged in two-dimensional squares are preferable to three-dimensional cubes however: they pass through the grid more quickly and once they reach the Cop's mind take up less space there.

How do you stay cheerful?' I said. 'I don't mind being alive,' he said.

The typical Japanese swing of mood is from intense dedication to intense boredom

Today is a day of opportunity. Whatever our lot, today we have the greatest freedom possible — the freedom to choose our attitude. We make or break our today by the attitudes we choose. Whatever our situation, we can choose the climate of our heart. We can choose the garment of praise.

For most humans throughout history, "more" wasn't even an option. "Enough" was the goal and was, by definition, enough.

Am I crazy? she asked. I feel like I am sometimes. Maybe, he said, rubbing her forehead. But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing, not a bad thing.

Change works both ways. You must accept those moments, experience them, and let them go. Because if you allow yourself to get stuck in that minute, nothing will ever change." "What are you saying?" "I am telling you that if things can change for the worse, the opposite is also true. But only if you open yourself to the possibilities. As Lulu did. It is what one finds so appealing about her." It

People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves

all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and try to consider the passing of each day a victory.

Los más inflexibles pensamientos son los más prestos a caer.

The person whose joy is dependant upon certain conditions is not himself joyful; his joy, after all, is that of the conditions and is conditional upon them.

Ein Spießbürger ist, wer ein absolutes Verhältnis zu relativen Dingen hat.

Már régen tökélyre vitte azt a képességet, hogy csak azt lássa, akit látni akar, ami létfontosságú készség, ha az ember a világnak nem áldozata, hanem ura akar lenni.

The limitations we place upon the world are imposed by ourselves rather than the world.

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

The antidote to joy is dread.

The burn of lifting weights, for instance, would be excruciating if it were a symptom of terminal illness. But because it is associated with health and fitness, most people find it enjoyable.

Willpower is itself a biological phenomenon. You can change your life, and yourself, through effort and discipline—but you have whatever capacity for effort and discipline you have in this moment, and not a scintilla more (or less). You are either lucky in this department or you aren't—and you cannot make your own luck.

The burn of lifting weights, for instance, would be excruciating if it were a symptom of terminal illness. But because it is associated with health and fitness, most people find it enjoyable. Here we see that cognition and emotion are not separate. The way we think about experience can completely determine how we feel about it.

I want to maximize my happiness, but I am generally not moved to do what I believe will make me happier than I now am.

Knowing what a person believes on a certain subject is not identical to knowing how that person thinks.

Changing your perception of the world is often as good as changing the world.

We often behave in ways that are guaranteed to make us unhappy.