Thorstein Veblen Quotes

Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.

In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

I am mentally strong.

I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

I think I'm blessed with a pretty tough psyche.

I'm real mentally strong, so there's just not a lot that people can say to get me off of my own self and lane, and my confidence.

I'm timid. But not on the court, at least, I try not to be.

You have some people that's weak, and you have some people that's strong. I consider myself a very strong person.

Mental strength is something you either have or you haven't.

If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities.

Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.

The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with us, and from which, at various times, and amidst all the shiftings of circumstances, we might be sure of drawing some comfort, guidance and sympathy.

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.

I am overwhelmed by the strength of my body and the power of my mind. For one moment, just one second, I feel immortal.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road.

High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.

Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude.

Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

Insanity is coasting through life.

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.