Quotes About Mindset

when you start to feel a little sad, anxious, or irritable it's not the mood that does the damage but how you react to it. • the effort of trying to free yourself from a bad mood or bout of unhappiness – of working out why you're unhappy and what you can do about it – often makes things worse. It's like being trapped in quicksand – the more you struggle to be free, the deeper you sink.

it wasn't necessarily events themselves that drove our emotions but our beliefs about or interpretations of those events.

Wake & Bake. More like Wash & Bake. Half a bowl of cereal and a shot of bourbon later, I'm there, my friendly haze having finally arrived. I'm ready for work.

Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there are times when I'm playing when I actually enjoy it.

Just remember that the enemy here is not in front of you.

First the colors. Then the humans. That's usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try. ***HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die.

If you're optimistic, think of it as bronze.

Primero los colores. Luego los humanos. Así es como acostumbro a ver las cosas. O, al menos, así intento verlas.

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

Look for the good," Louise Weir had taught her sons. "The bad happens anyway.

Change your thoughts, change your world.

we don't just react to the world as it is. We react to the world as we think it is—the

We also believe thoughts like "I'm hungry" or "I need pie" even when they aren't true. We react to these inaccurate statements as though they were scientific fact. As

External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.

He wants to deal with what you can do right now. Because now is all you can change.

You don't have problems, only a capacity for feeling anxious about them, which shifts and jostles but doesn't change.

Richard didn't mind Gwyn being rich...Having always been poor was good preparation for being rich. Better than having always been rich...The well and all its sweet water would surely one day run dry.

Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch. ch. 1, p. 23 in Penguin paperback

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.

It is pretty difficult to imagine a single person having, simultaneously, the characteristics of the serpent and the dove, but this is what Jesus expects. We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

You can't stop a bird from landing on your head. But you can keep it from building a nest.