David Levithan Quotes

The more I pay attention to what's going on inside, the more I realize that how I feel, and how I react to what I feel, really creates my reality. And the more in touch I can be, the better chance I have to control what's happening in my life.

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

The only thing that matters is the choice you are making now--this very instant.

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.

My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.

I think that we have to have the ability to decide what we share and what we don't.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

The hardest thing in leadership is managing your own psychology, and yet it's also the least talked about.

I can't control what everyone else does, I can't control anybody else's behavior, but I can control mine.

Make a decision that from now on, your thoughts do not run you, you run your thoughts. From now on, your mind is not the captain of your ship, you are the captain of the ship, and your mind works for you.

Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

Emotions are our spontaneous response to life. We have these emotions, but if the emotion is a negative emotion, then I have a choice to say, "I am feeling sad tonight because this happened, but I am not going to let my sadness keep me from engaging my wife in conversation. "

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

I'm now much more aware of my mental state. I have a lot more control over it and can choose how I feel.

They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.

There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it's a choice.

Well, you can’t control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it…whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they’re doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much you’ll let it affect you

Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.

Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.