Quotes About Mindset

Your karma is not in what is happening to you; your karma is in the way you respond to what is happening to you.

Ultimately, life is neither suffering nor bliss. It is what you make it.

Your aliveness is going down because you are committing suicide in installments.

If I think you are a wonderful person, I will have sweet emotions toward you. If I think you are a horrible person, I will harbor nasty emotions about you. If you make someone your enemy and then try to love him or her, that is hard work. Let us not make hard work of the simple aspects of life.

Unless you do the right things, the right things will not happen to you. Principles and philosophies are only of social consequence. It is time to wake up to yourself as an existential being, a living being, rather than a psychological case. Then your destiny will be your own. One hundred percent your own.

You may be carrying around a sackful of stinking garbage. Either you can smear yourself with it and get terribly miserable, or you can make good manure out of it and create a wonderful garden.

If you want a successful event, you have to project success; your attitude will help make it a hit.) Although

It's easy to forget, there is a difference between self-defense and training for self-defense. What we are about to say applies to self-defense– not training.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher

Sometimes, said Miss Phillips, the thing you dread doing the very thing you should do, just so you can stop thinking about it.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. —Maya Angelou, author and poet Have

We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens. —Epictetus, Greek philosopher I

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.

Choose not to be harmed—and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed—and you haven't been.

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

Life is opinion.

How unlucky I am that this should happen to me. But not at all. Perhaps, say how lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened, and I am not afraid of what is about to happen. For the same blow might have stricken anyone, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation and complaint.

Our actions may be impeded... But there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impeding to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them. But when they obstruct our proper tasks, they become irrelevant to us—like sun, wind, animals. Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

You have the power within you to endure anything, for your mere opinion can render it tolerable, perhaps even acceptable, by regarding it as an opportunity for enlightenment or a matter of duty.

Take away thy opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, I have been harmed. Take away the complaint, I have been harmed, and the harm is taken away.   That which does not make a man worse than he was, also does not make his life worse, nor does it harm him either from without or from within.

If you are distressed about anything, the pain is not due to the thing but to your own estimate of it.

I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.