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Judgments
about ourselves or negative thoughts about
our future can cause depression. Beware of thoughts that
revolve around the words "never" or "always."
-Susan
Santucci
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When
I think of my past, I try to dwell on the good times, the happy moments,
and not to be haunted by the bad. . .
To me the gift of life is contained
in the command, whatever happens: “Don’t
let it get you. Just keep on
going.” Thus, I try to think of the good that I have already experienced
and what will still be coming. -Rose
Kennedy
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thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative,
unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and thistles of
depression, discontent,
and anxiety in the garden of your mind. Luckily, the opposite is
also true.
Consistently planting positive, healthy, constructive thoughts will yield
a crop
of beautiful feelings, such as gratitude, love, and
joy. -Sue
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Unhappiness
indicates wrong thinking,
just as ill health indicates a bad
regimen. -Paul Bourge
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greatest discovery of my generation is that people can alter their lives
simply
by altering their attitude of
mind. -William James
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| When
you are offended or annoyed by others, do not allow your thoughts to dwell
on them
or on anything relating to them. For
example, don't think that they ought not
to have treated you so, being who they are, or whom they think themselves
to be,
or the like. All this is fuel
and kindling of wrath, anger, and hatred.
-Lorenzo
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No sin is committed
merely because a thought enters the mind,
provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure
that the thought first passes into an anteroom, where it stands
before the mind acting as a judge. No matter how sordid or evil,
it has not touched the personality with its infamy nor in any way
laid guilt upon the soul unless and until the mind acting as judge
admits it with a welcome. If the mind decides against it and
dismisses it, the personality is not only unsullied but is, on the
contrary,
by this act of rejection stimulated and strengthened in moral
power. -Norman
Vincent Peale
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Some of
your hurts you have cured
And the sharpest you've even survived,
But what torments of grief you've endured
From evils which never arrived.
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| The quality
of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. . . take care that
you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable
nature. -Marcus Aurelius
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| I am an old man
and have known a great many troubles,
but most of them have never
happened. -Mark Twain
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Unfortunately,
spending time alone with one’s own thoughts
creates anxiety for many people and accounts for much escapist
activity.
Learn to listen to your own thoughts.
This will help you
learn more about your inner self and your real goals.
Spend some
time alone each day familiarizing yourself with your thoughts.
You can
do this while walking outdoors or relaxing at home, in a church,
synagogue, or mosque, or even in the public library.
This solitude
will provide you with an opportunity to clarify and become
comfortable with your feelings and thoughts and to assess
the strategies for reaching your
objectives. -Ari Kiev
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| There is no physician like cheerful thought for
dissipating the ills of the body;
there is no comforter to compare with good will for dispersing the shadows
of grief and sorrow. To live continually in thoughts of ill will, cynicism,
suspicion,
and envy, is to be confined in a self-made prison hole.
But to think well of all,
to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all—such
unselfish
thoughts are the very portals of happiness; and to dwell day by day in
thoughts
of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their
possessor. -James Allen
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| The biggest quality in
successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking. . . .
How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one,
that's wrong,
because it may never be right, and what have you got to
lose? Even if it's a disaster,
you've tried, you've learned
something, you've had an adventure.
And that doesn't mean you can't
do it again. -Edward McCabe
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A
well-kept garden filled with flowers
Has no room left for weeds to share;
The mind keeps out unworthy thoughts
When loveliness is dwelling there.
Leona
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sea reflects the sun perfectly if the water is still. But if
it is agitated by the wind the light fragments into a million
mirrored suns. It is like this with the mind. If the
mind is disturbed by thoughts, the Light of Oneness is fragmented
and we perceive only the manyness of things. When thoughts
are still, however, the One Light is perfectly reflected in the
mind. -Issa Das
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| Nothing
erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively
than conscious concentration on pleasant
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Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself
miserable
I had to work in the most intense fashion, and that it was
absurd. I had now realized
I could work just the same in making
myself complete and strong. "The trick is in
what one
emphasizes," he said. "We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
-Carlos Castaneda
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| Drag
your thoughts away from your troubles--by the ear, by the heels,
or any
other way you can manage it. It's the healthiest thing a body can
do. -Mark
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Anger
and worry are the enemies of clear thought.
-Madeleine Brent
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People
are what they think about all day long.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thoughts have
been my greatest nemesis my entire life long. Not all thoughts, just
those that make me feel miserable, those with which I would torment myself
for long periods of time. Often they'd result from my own
actions--I'd do something or say something I regretted, and I would spend
hours or days feeling miserable as my mind went over all the possible
negative repercussions for doing what I had done.
-Tom Walsh
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The mind
is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell,
a hell of heaven. -John Milton
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Our
great misfortune is that we have no organ,
no kind of eyelid or brake, to
mask or block a thought,
or all thought, when we want to. -Paul Valery
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Nurture great thoughts for you will never go
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