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Mindset.

Shape your thoughts, shape your world.

“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them.”

“Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.”

“What consumes your mind controls your life.”

“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”

“Think positive, and positive things will happen.”

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less.”

“We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves.”

Rudolf Dreikurs

“I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.”

“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.”

G.K. Chesterton

“He that is a donkey, and believes himself a deer, finds out his mistake at the leaping of the ditch.”

Italian proverbs

“A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.”

“Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions; it is governed by our mental attitude.”

“We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.”

G.K. Chesterton

“A man who thinks himself a chicken is to himself as ordinary as a chicken.”

G.K. Chesterton

“Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator.”

“Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.”

Michel de Montaigne

“Think much, say little, write less.”

Italian proverbs

“It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.”

“He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.”

George Bernard Shaw

“The first duty of a man is to think for himself.”

“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.”

Clarence Darrow

“He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity. What you do is an indication of the type of person you believe that you are either consciously or nonconsciously.”

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”

“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

“The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.”

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”

“Life does not control you. What you believe about it, does.”

“Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.”

“A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.”

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

“If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”

“Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.”

“If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.”

“A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.”

“I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience.”

“If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would probably change our attitude.”

“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”

“An intellectual man in complete solitude has excellent entertainment in his own thoughts and fancies, while no amount of diversity or social pleasure, theaters, excursions and amusements, can ward off boredom from a dullard.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things.”

“Focus on you, people come and go.”

“If you don't control your mind someone else will.”

“Learn to choose your mental health over old attachments.”

“The oldest, shortest words 'yes' and 'no' are those which requires the most thought.”

“We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.”

“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.”

“If you think you're going to win, it doesn't mean vou're going to win. If you think you're going to lose, you will lose.”

“The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”