A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you’re doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It’s what you think of it. Two people may in the same place doing the same thing, and yet one may be miserable and the other happy. Why? Because of a different mental attitude.
I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?
Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.
I think all families are creepy in a way.
Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.
A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.
Age is not based on chronology, but psychology.
The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.
Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see.
The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.
It's all about where your mind's at
From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.
Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so.
If the handbag could think, it would have a terrific inferiority feeling, because, not having been bought, it would feel useless.
[It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.
