You Are What You Think Quotes

“men are disturbed, not by things, but by the view they take of them.” He understood that in every situation, our responses are based on how we choose to interpret that event. And that choice creates our emotions.”
― David Stoop, You Are What You Think

“Anger prepares me to fight—to move against and push away. Fear prepares me to take flight—to move away from the threat. Both anger and fear are reactions to a threat.”
― David Stoop, You Are What You Think

“Paul endured great wear and tear on his body. Yet he did not give in to stress, for he adds that his inner nature, his mind and spirit, was being renewed every day.”
― David Stoop, You Are What You Think

“matters. If we focus on the facts related to an out-of-control
world, we will behave in a certain manner. If we focus on a world under the control of an all-powerful God, we will behave”
― David Stoop, You Are What You Think

“We respond in one of two ways when we are confused by our feelings and emotions. We either become overwhelmed, allowing our feelings to spill over onto those around us and draw them into a confusing drama; or we become overcontrolling, holding a tight rein on any expression of our feelings or emotions while also attempting to carefully control everything that goes on around us.”
― David Stoop, You Are What You Think

“Anger and fear, emotions that are opposite in direction, have been called the emotions that trigger the fight/flight syndrome. Anger prepares me to fight—to move against and push away. Fear prepares me to take flight—to move away from the threat. Both anger and fear are reactions to a threat. Interestingly, what takes place physiologically (in my body) when I am angry is identical to what happens when I am fearful. The difference is in my perception of the threat—how I see that which is threatening me.”
― David Stoop, You Are What You Think

“Lots of people have all kinds of impressive credentials and have accumulated volumes of important knowledge and skills, but they have never really been able to get their lives moving in any direction. We look at them and shake our heads, thinking of all that wasted potential, and wonder why they put all that effort into “getting ready” when it appears to everyone watching that they don’t intend to ever “get started.”
― David Stoop, You Are What You Think

“It is not what is occurring in our lives that affects our behavior; it is what we believe about what is occurring that matters.”
― David Stoop, You Are What You Think

“The emotions of anger and fear are reactions to threatening situations or people. Love is the emotion of self-control, for when love is our response, we are able to act, not react, to life.”
― David Stoop, You Are What You Think

“feelings to describe worry, guilt, anxiety, sadness, depression, happiness, joy, contentment, and so forth.”
― David Stoop, You Are What You Think