Quotes About Mindset

It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.

It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves...The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men and so with the paths which the mind travels.

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray, i.e., we are not looking for it. So, in the largest sense, we find only the world we look for.

Ce qu'un homme pense de lui-même, voilà ce qui règle ou plutôt indique son destin.

It's not what you look at that matters, its what you see

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.

guardatevi da tutte le imprese che richiedono abiti nuovi, invece che nuovi «indossatori». Se non c'è l'uomo nuovo, come si potranno fare abiti che gli si adattino? Se dovete intraprendere qualche cosa di nuovo, fatelo nei vostri abiti vecchi.

There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate-- not a grain more

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation

O que um homem pensa de si, eis o que determina, ou pelo menos indica, o seu destino.

Ciò che un uomo pensa di se stesso, è quello che determina, o piuttosto indica, il suo destino.

My envy's not dangerous; it wouldn't hurt a mouse.

One's theories, after all, matter little, it is one's humor that is the great thing.

you mustn't think life will be for you all hard things. You've the right to be happy. You must make up your mind to it. You must accept any form in which happiness may come.

When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it,or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. I am very certain now that, as I said therein, if I truly become what I wish to be, the burden will fall away. The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

Everything hinges on how you look at things

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking things.

The act of dreaming, like a draught of fresh air in an abandoned house, situates the furniture of the mind in a new ambiance.

So, whether the world is going to pieces or not, whether you are on the side of the angels or the devil himself, take life for what it is, have fun, spread joy and confusion.

Nothing is right or wrong but thinking makes it so. You no longer believe in reality but in thinking. And when you are pushed off the dead end your thoughts go with you and they are of no use to you.

Y, por lo general, las cosas salían mal sólo cuando te preocupabas demasiado.