Quotes about Mindset

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

What do you want, rational minds or irrational?" Rational minds. "What sort of rational minds, calm or disturbed?" Calm. "How can you acquire calm, rational minds?" We already have them. "Really? Then why are you squabbling among yourselves?" —Socrates

Indeed, no one can thwart the purposes of your mind—for they can't be touched by fire, steel, tyranny, slander, or anything.

But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them, which you can erase right now

Harbour no such opinions as he holds who does thee violence, or as he would have thee hold. See things in all their naked reality.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all time.

Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.

Though it's hard to concentrate on the idea of a future. She's too immersed in the present:

Every day, set your mind in the right direction. Find something to be grateful for.

Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful.