Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement.

Even our concepts about romantic love, I think, are destructive; treating people as property is destructive; being jealous of other people is destructive. You know, being jealous is a perfectly natural thing to feel, so it's not about suppressing jealousy, but learning to come to terms with it and to recognize its destructiveness and then to transform it.

Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.

Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.

If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking.

Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired.

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.

Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

New habits make new horizons. Silently and imperceptibly you are forming habits which will ultimately determine the degree of your happiness and success. Closely guard the quality of your thoughts, that they may lead to right habits and thence to right living. Recognize and use such supreme qualities as courage, faith, humility, loyalty, temperance, and integrity.

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.

Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.

I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.

Go first to your Highest Thought about yourself. Imagine the you that you would be if you lived that thought every day. Imagine what you would think, do, and say, and how you would respond to what others would do and say. Do you see any difference between that projection and what you think, do, and say now?

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

Failure is an event, it is not a person.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.