Quotes About Mindset

To be human means to feel inferior.

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

Well, maybe that's what love is, as state of mind ready to grace anyone willing to accept it. Anyone who cares.

Being happy," Uncle Tommy liked to say, "takes a great deal of work." He said he had no time for anything else.

Accordingly, he came to believe that his immediate environment was the world itself.

You would think as you get older your mind would fill up with what they call the spiritual side of things, but mine just seems to get more and more practical, trying to get something settled.

The thing is to be happy, he said. No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, and you're just there, going along easy in the world.

La cuestión es ser feliz -dijo Neal-. A toda costa. Inténtalo. Se puede. Y luego cada vez resulta más fácil. No tiene nada que ver con las circunstancias. No te imaginas hasta qué punto funciona. Se aceptan las cosas y la tragedia desaparece. O pesa menos, en cualquier caso, y de pronto descubres que estás en paz con el mundo.

The thing is to be happy," he said. "No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, and you're just there, going along easy in the world." Now, good-bye.

said that I had considered what he was saying, but no. "The thing is to be happy," he said. "No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, and you're just there, going along easy in the world.

Things happen, I thought, and we respond. That's what it all comes down to. To believe anything else, as far as I could tell, was simply an illusion.

the most common way people give up there power is by thinking they don't have any

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking that they don't have any.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any

Anger can also be a kind of wealth, she thought.

As long as someone holds an arms-folded position,a negative attitude will persist.

To quit successfully, you need to focus on what the cigarette is doing for you. Once you understand you're not making a sacrifice, you're well on your way to freedom.

Being a smoker can never get better, only worse.

Knowledge is not necessarily enough to beat the nicotine trap.

We confuse responsibility with stress. Responsibility becomes stressful only if you are not strong enough to handle it.

You do not need to smoke. It's the last thing you need to do; make sure it isn't the last thing you do.

For example, those of you who think it is just a habit, ask yourselves why other habits, some of them enjoyable ones, are easy to break, yet a habit that tastes awful, costs us a fortune and kills us is so difficult to break.

I closed my mind, prayed it wouldn't be me, kept my head firmly in the sand and hoped that I would wake up one morning with no desire to smoke.

So just relax, keep your mind open, and accept the feeling for what it is: the Little Monster fading away. In this frame of mind, these become moments of real pleasure rather than moments of struggle.