We all have times that we get off center.
Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.
Your mind is your invisible talisman. The letters PMA (positive mental attitude) are emblazoned on one side, and NMA (negative mental attitude) on the other. These are powerful forces.
Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object.
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
Wherever you go, there you are. Whatever you wind up doing, that's what you've wound up doing. Whatever you are thinking right now, that's what's on your mind. Whatever has happened to you, it has already happened. The important question is, "how are you going to handle it?" .... Like it or not, this moment is all we really have to work with.
In the United States, higher self-reported mental health is strongly correlated with holding conservative political views. Although I’ve seen it written about elsewhere, I was honestly surprised by how strong the relationship is. Among voters who report poor mental health, liberals outnumber conservatives 45 percent to 19 percent. Among those who report excellent mental health, conservatives outnumber liberals 51-20.
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
You are now, and you do become, what you think about.
Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.
Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.
Where focus goes, energy flows.
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
The man who fears losing has already lost.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.
Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
