Henri Nouwen Quotes

Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.

If you are selective about the things you choose to read, look at or listen to, then you are taking effective action against negative thinking. It's just like with a computer; if you change the input, you will change the output.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

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.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. It's using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.

Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused on keeping us in a state of constant alert.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.

Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

There's this idea that, 'All I have at the end of the day is my mind.' That's the only thing you can control. I believe that.

Every morning, I do 10 minutes of mindfulness, where I do meditation, and I use that in competition and everyday life.

I think, mind over body, it's real.

You're always carrying something that's interfering. It's like static noise that doesn't have to be there, and you have to school yourself to clean that out.

I don't read newspapers or watch the news on TV, deliberately to avoid the noise.

When I was younger I used to read everything. 'Why is this guy saying this, why is this article saying this.' That's one of the things Coach Saban has taught me, he does not listen or read anything that's out there at all. He says 'why am I going to waste my time?'

Anybody can play decent golf like me, but people trip on their own minds. They need to create a little distance between what they think and what they do.

I just try to play with more focus on myself; I don't worry too much about the other things that maybe gave me too much pressure in the past.