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MINDSET QUOTES [BLOG#6]

MINDSET QUOTES

“Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.”
― Idowu Koyenikan

“It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
― Germany Kent

“The mind has a powerful way of attracting things that are in harmony with it, good and bad.”
― Idowu Koyenikan

“Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.”
― Amit Ray,

“Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”
― Steve Maraboli,

“There is nothing either ‘ good or bad ‘ but ‘ thinking ‘ makes it so. It is the “perception” that makes things what they are. Good and bad is in our mind. It is our mindset, our mental attitude that determines how we will interpret and respond to situations.
Erik pevernagie – (“Is that all there is ?”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.”
― Steve Maraboli,

“When love is roaming in our mind, looping in the deepest fringes of our heart, undreamt spaciousness emerges, repealing the constraints of triviality and letting stifling narrowness fade away. While our mindset is besieged by a revolving burst of emotion, our world is ultimately opening up. (Cape of good hope)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“People who feel imprisoned in a pen of alienation, in a world of misfits, clobbered by unresponsiveness and indifference, may find release by ring-fencing a mental space to reflect on their mindset and to recover their true self. (“Did not expect it would ever happen there” )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he’s devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It’s hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.”
― David Foster Wallace,

“As we might be overwhelmed by the dictate of a mindset at odds with reality, and cannot get a grip on our unconsciousness, rather than curling up in the hive of uncomfortable expectations, let us cry out and unshackle our free will. (“Transcendental journey”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter.”
― Amit Ray,

“The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.”
― Lalah Delia

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. –Winston Churchill

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. –Brian Tracy

Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it. – John Wooden

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. –Brian Tracy

The best way to predict your future is to create it. –Abraham Lincoln

You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better. –Jim Rohn

Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. –Jim Rohn

The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be. –Carol Dweck

You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not at all. –Brian Tracy

You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way. –Carol Dweck

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. –Steve Jobs

Become the change you want to see—those are words I live by. –Oprah Winfrey

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. –Franklin D. Roosevelt

The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. –Carol Dweck

“If the light in our hearts can brighten up the darkness in the mindset of our neighbors, we liberate them from a prison of distrust and prejudice. The healing glow unshackles the frozen atoms of their minds. (“Le ciel c’est l’autre”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana

“A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.”
― Vera Nazarian

“There will be times in your life when things simply have to be replaced because they are tired, broken, worn out, harmful, outdated, or irrelevant. Take an inventory of the things that no longer serve your best and highest good so you can replace them with things which do.”
― Susan C. Young

“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?”
― Onyi Anyado

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure. –Christian D. Larson

I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could. –Carol Dweck

Belief in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. –Norman Vincent Peale

In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty. –Norman Vincent Peale

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. –A.A. Milne

“Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.”
― Germany Kent

“If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.”
― Victor Hugo

“Quitting is never an option on the road to success. Find the way forward. If you have a positive mindset and are willing to persevere, there is little that is beyond your reach. The attitude of being ready to work even in the face of challenges and despite odds is what will make all the difference in your life.”
― Roopleen

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. –Benjamin Spock

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. –Hal Borland

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. –Dale Carnegie

First and foremost, let us remember that change has never been quick. Change has never been simple, or without controversy. Change depends on persistence. Change requires determination. –Barack Obama

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path. –Mahatma Gandhi

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SELFESTEEM QUOTES [BLOG #5]

SELFESTEEM QUOTES

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.”
― Harvey Fierstein

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
― Mark Twain

“It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”
― Warsan Shire
“When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.”
― Jodi Picoult,

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
― John Joseph Powell

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
― C.G. Jung

“There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn’t matter anymore.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson

“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
― Michael J. Fox

“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.”

“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”
― Ayn Rand,

“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I’m Dylan. I’m so cool. I want to date myself, but I don’t know how! You want to date me instead? You’re so lucky!”
― Rick Riordan

“I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson

“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”
― M. Scott Peck

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
― Edward Everett Hale

“Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.”
― Iyanla Vanzant

“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”
― Bernard Branson

“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
― Naomi Wolf,

“How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others.”
― Steve Maraboli

“There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone.”
― Shannon Alder

“As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are – what others say is irrelevant.”
― Nic Sheff

“For once, you believed in yourself. You believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.”
― Sarah Dessen

“Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
― Henry Ford

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
― Andre Gide

“I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”
― Henry James

“Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you’re hurting.”
― Paul Monette

“Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.”
― Dr. Asa Don Brown

“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”
― Brigham Young

“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
― Naomi Wolf,

“Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”
― Dr Roopleen

“I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I’m Harry Potter.”
― Daniel Radcliffe

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EMPATHY QUOTES [BLOG #2]

EMPATHY QUOTES

One of the most important aspects of being a human being, is being able to be in a relationship. Being able to successfully form and maintain a relationship. And at the heart of that capability is the capacity to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes, to see the world as how they see it. That capacity is empathy. – Bruce Perry
This capacity for empathy leads to a genuine encounter – we have to progress toward this culture of encounter – in which heart speaks to heart. – Pope Francis

The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person. – Carl Roger
Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another. – Dada Vaswani

If you find yourself saying ‘But I’m just being honest’, chances are you’ve just been unkind. Honesty doesn’t heal. Empathy does. – Dan Waldschmidt
All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves. – Criss Jami

If you look into someone’s face long enough, eventually you’re going to feel that you’re looking at yourself. – Paul Auster
An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like. – Tarana Burke

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eye for an instant? – Henry David Thoreau

The greatest cruelty is our casual blindness to the despair of others. – Anonymous

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act. – Eric Zorn
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. – Walt Whitman

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. – Tahereh Mafi
Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. – Jonathan Franzen

We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood. – Maya Soetoro-Ng
When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. – Criss Jami

If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied. – Dan Pearce
Practicing kindness increases our ability to be empathetic. It helps keep our hearts open. And that, truly, is the best way to live. – Kristi Bowman

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other. – Meryl Streep
Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms. – Sterling K. Brown

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe. – Homer
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. – Leo Buscaglia

Have compassion and empathy in your heart. Many people are suffering deep emotional anguish beneath the surface of their lives, and smile even as they hurt inside. – Jim Palmer
If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. – Frederick Buechner

Empathy means both understanding others on their own terms and bringing them within the orbit of one’s own experience. – Jacob A. Belzen
To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. – Stephen Bachelor

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. – Karen Armstrong
Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you do not have to fight. – Traci Lea Larussa

The only time you look in your neighbor’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl to see if you have as much as them. – Louis C.K.
The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love. – Criss Jami

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own. – Barbara Kingsolver
Empathy is one of humankind’s prized possessions. Acts of consideration and kindness are inevitable when a person can mentally step into someone else’s shoes. Even if it’s just for a moment. – Izey Victoria Odiaze

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