Quotes about Mindset

Joy is not the opposite of depression. It is deeper than depression. Therefore, you can experience both. Depression is the relentless rain. Joy is the rock. Whether depression is present or not, you can stand on joy.

At this point, we know that worry and fear are more about us than about the things outside us.

Anger takes everything personally, as if everything is an intentional act to make your life miserable.

What happens when people are raised on a steady diet of "You are great, you can do anything, you deserve it, you are the best, you can get what you want"? Sooner or later they find that they are not great, they can't do everything, they are not the best, and they can't control it all. Depression and denial are the only two options left.

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.

Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views which they take of them.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.