Seth Godin Quotes

If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me, then that is what I will find in my world.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

You speak what you believe, and you believe you’re doomed. If there’s one thing I’ve learned throughout the years, it’s that what you believe is the impetus for your entire life.

For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three - the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.

Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts.

The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.

Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy? CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!

I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and drive him...to be naughty, because nobody expects them to be good.

It's quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.

Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.

What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

It's not what happens in life that bothers us. It's what we're believing about it that bothers us.

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

You are what you think ... geez, that's frightening.

Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.

I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.