Quotes Tagged "events"

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

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

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

Losses are comparative, imagination only makes them of any moment.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.

So long as one does not despair, so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly, things work out fairly well in the end.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Little things affect little minds.

No emotional crisis is wholly the product of outward circumstances. These may precipitate it. But what turns an objective situation into a subjectively critical one is the interpretation the individual puts upon it - the meaning it has in his emotional economy; the way it affects his self-image.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

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

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

I can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.