Gerald Jampolsky Quotes

More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.

I had to fight with myself not to hurt people, some serious mental wars.

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

Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.

Every day I think, 'Can I commit?' I think I can and that I will.

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

I don't torture myself.

It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes.

I learned to focus on what's real rather than imagined; on not letting feelings drive the bus; on being courageous and honest; on putting my total effort into something and not worrying about the result.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it... You've got to replace it with a positive thought.

I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them.

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

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.

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

You stay positive. Any competitor is going to get angry with themselves and frustrated, and all the emotion comes on.

On those days when you don't want to get up, I think, I'm going to get through my entire practice without saying how tired I am or I try not to complain just because I was in a bad mood when I woke up. Even if it's not perfect and I slip up, I can catch myself and make myself of aware of where my mental space is at and move on.

I have struggled with anxiety and depression since I was a teenager.

I suffer anxiety and a lot of insecurities, depression and stuff.

The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule your life.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.