Beilby Porteus Quotes

Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you had just prior to and during the depression. Because these thoughts have actually created your bad mood, by learning to restructure them, you can change your mood.

I don't know - sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it's annoying. I think, 'Get over it.' I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm sure I am obsessive.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

I used to have to think about awful things to get myself emotionally connected to something.

Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.

if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives

Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail on water all around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

If your day is full of little mean, dark thoughts, is it any wonder you feel crabby? Maybe it's because you let your mind run wild like a dog putting its nose into garbage everywhere.

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life.

Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.

Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

I am wrapped in dismal thinking.

What you do comes from what you think.

Watch your thoughts. They turn into words, then turn into actions.

In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective.

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.