Eve Arnold Quotes

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

I sometimes think that so much of our life takes place inside our heads - in memory or imagination or interpretation or speculation - that if I really want to change my life, I might best begin by changing my mind.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

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

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your thoughts. The kind of person you are comes from the way you think. And it bleeds into the way you feel. And such forth. If the mind is not free, then we won't be free.

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.

Knowing ourselves and how we feel can help us improve.

What you fill your mind with is eventually translated into the words you speak, and then your words create action.

Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think.

Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for chatter but for mostly the images that flow into the mind or little ideas. I keep a running journal, and I have all of my life, so it's like your gold mine when you start writing.

If you clear your mind, you can fill it with your character. If it is cluttered, if it is anxious, if you're thinking about your date, about your dinner, about filling your refrigerator, there's no room. There's no room for the character you're trying to build.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what's been on your mind so you can think about what you've been thinking about.

I'm interested in psychology and how your surroundings can influence your character, and because of that, I think I try and take the very best from a situation, good or bad, and constantly work on myself.

Education is the best way to relieve someone from a bad thought process.

I try to pace my life out and try not to be too involved with negativity and try to fix what I can fix in my life.

Specifically, my time in therapy has changed my life. It was such a relief to have a trained professional listen to my thoughts and help me positively restructure my thinking.