Karen Salmansohn Quotes

I don't torture myself.

Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

I'm not the perfect person. I'm not the most happy person. I get angry, and I get mad sometimes, but I try my best to control my thoughts. Because that flows throughout your body.

You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.

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.

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

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.

If you think negatively, it's hard to get out of tense moments.

We can't determine our emotions, but we can choose our attitudes and actions.

You are a human being, you do react. If you react to negativity, you also react to positivity.

I make sure I cut down the negative thoughts and accept the reality there is. If it is going good, it is good.

Have a good sense of perspective and be able to snap yourself out of bad moods, as we often wind ourselves up about the silliest things.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

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

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

I don't waste time being depressed.

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.