Susanna Kaysen Quotes

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

You either control your mind or it controls you.

You... and only you choose your thoughts.

Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.

If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections.

I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

The mind is such a powerful thing, and when you learn how to control that it really turns a lot of things around.

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.

It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.

Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.

What we think is, in the adult person, very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to feel. Moreover, what we think is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to feel. In short, the condition of our mind is very much a matter of the direction in which our will is set.

You won’t have to watch what you say if you watch what you think.