Quotes About Mindset

We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

I was able to fly when I believed. If you believe you can do anything, right?

Well, to quote my mother, a worm lies in horseradish and thinks there's nothing sweeter.

Life is one percent what happens to you, and ninety-nine percent how you respond to it.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

enjoy your problems

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

When people criticise me, I know how to defend myself. But I'm powerless in the face of praise.

People ought to be able to understand that this is my way of fighting, she says. Cancer can't get me if I get me first. And what's the sense in waiting, she says, when I'm ready to go.

si te sientes desgraciada, domina este sentimiento; haz de modo que tu felicidad no dependa de ningún hecho.

What other people think about me is none of my business .

I tend not to look back. What's done is done, good, bad or indifferent. I'm much more concerned with whatever's coming next.

You cannot teach a man how to forget fear. It is a rare quality

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.

Je suis un intellectuel. Ça m'agace qu'on fasse de ce mot une insulte : les gens ont l'air de croire que le vide de leur cerveau leur meuble les couilles.

In fact – and with very few exceptions – when a man joins a party, he submissively adopts a mental attitude which he will express later on with words such as, 'As a monarchist, as a Socialist, I think that . . .' It is so comfortable! It amounts to having no thoughts at all. Nothing is more comfortable than not having to think.

I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies

We are all writers from an early age. Most of what we write is nonfiction—essays for school, letters to friends, memoranda to colleagues—in which we are trying to pass on information. We are raised with a traditional nonfiction mind-set. Even when we write love letters, we are trying to communicate how we feel and not necessarily trying to evoke an emotion in the recipient, though that might be better suited to our purpose.

We needed to get rid of the belief that we couldn't rest until our work was done. Work is never done.

Sonia, there just comes a moment when you decide it's time to be happy and that is all." I had that moment in Malta, but it was good to hear it again.

It is my responsibility to feel good, and it is my fault if I don't.