Quotes About Mindset

I did not ask her to go from disliking her sister to loving her sister. I asked her to try to go from disliking her sister to feeling neutral about her sister. To do this for her own sake, so she didn't have to feel the unpleasant feeling of disliking someone. She did. Her thought changed from: "My sister is unreasonable." To: "My sister doing what my sister does." She felt relief. Isn't

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window—or break down a door.

We can control our lives by controling our perceptions.

the character of our life is based upon how we perceive it.

We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love.

I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was instantly energized because I realized that there was a science-based path that would take me from my job as a perennial "victim" to my new position as "co-creator" of my destiny. (Prologue, xv)

I had learned the most important rule in winning-keep thinking.

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

You're either attaching to your thoughts or inquiring. There's no other choice.

There's only one thing harder than accepting this, and that is not accepting it.

Because if it hurts, it's your thinking that's hurting you.

We all do emotional gymnastics to be seen as wonderful or funny—just to get what we already have. And because we're doing the gymnastics, we don't see that we already have it.

I already please everyone, and I already have everyone's approval, though I don't expect them to realize it yet.

Every time you try to change someone, you are trying to change someone that doesn't exist. They only exist in your head. People are who you believe them to be.

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.

If I believe I need something I don't have I'm insane.

The basic realization that other people can't possibly be your problem, that it's your thoughts about them that are the problem—this realization is huge. This one insight will shake your whole world, from top to bottom

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

Everything happens for me, not to me.

El sufrimiento está causado por un apego a una creencia profundamente fijada. Es un estado en el que se produce un apego ciego a algo que uno cree que es verdad.

imagined slights could be more poisonous than real ones.

All I've got is a pocketful of attitude.

Should, is the worst word in the English language. People always think things should be a certain way, and when they're not, they're disappointed.

Should, I suddenly recal myself saying to Samantha and Miranda, is the worst word in the English language. People always thing thing 'should' be a certain way, and when they're not, they're disappointed.