Master Your Mind Quotes

“For every minute you're angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind" -Ralph Waldo Emerson”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“For every minute you're angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind" -Ralph Waldo Emerson     My”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“We're all walking around like zombies half the time, and since the default setting of the mind is somewhere between chaos at one extreme and apathetic negativity at the other, we spend a good bit of our time just feeling like crap, unless of course you're taking a “feel-good” pill, then you might feel a little bit better than crap, except for the potential side-effects of drowsiness, decreased motivation and sex-drive, nausea, and anal leakage (just kidding, I don't think anal leakage is a true side-effect, but it may”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“China launched the first quantum satellite, making hack proof communication possible for the first time ever.  This was such an amazing feat that it has left the United States decades behind China in the realm of quantum technology.  This event can also be compared in significance to the Soviet Union being the first country to launch a man into space, which was plastered all over the front page of every newspaper, but no one’s really talking about China’s satellite now because most people don’t have any idea what quantum physics is all about. *”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Pericles, one of the most famous generals in ancient Greece, once said, "With us it is no disgrace to be poor; the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid poverty.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“A relationship is like a quilt that over time get holes worn in it.  Paraphrasing provides us with the needle, thread, and patches to keep everything together.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“giving ourselves what we need will allow us to give others what they need.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Narcissism stems from the need to fill a great void, but the void cannot be filled by distractions of immediate gratification and passive pleasure seeking.  It can only be filled by reparenting and rebuilding the strength in our ego and our self-esteem.  We can't give to others something that we haven't even given to ourselves, and if we don't understand how we feel, how can we understand how others feel? The moral of the story is that if we accept the good and the bad, and truly love ourselves in a healthy way, we will have confidence in our abilities to make ourselves happy. Then the light of beauty that shines within us will be brighter to us than anyone else’s, and we'll know that this inner light will remain within us forever.  Wherever we go and no matter what happens to us, it will always be shining.  This”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“We're trying to create the best environment for making a quantum leap with our minds, and being a mature and disciplined thinker, yet having a child-like humbleness and openness to life, will help us do just that.  Many people however, are immature, impulsive, and are stuck in a childhood phase of development.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Delphi to ask the Oracle, "Is there any man wiser than Socrates?"  The priestess replied, "There is no man wiser than Socrates."  Socrates didn't understand the Oracle’s riddle, because he certainly didn't think he was the wisest man in all of Athens, so he set out to disprove the Oracle.  He went to speak to all of the wisest men he knew of, men who surely were wiser than he was.  Socrates began to realize though, after questioning these men at great length, that they all thought they were very wise, but at their core they knew very little.  Socrates was unable to find anyone that, like himself, was aware of his own ignorance.  He ultimately concluded that the Oracle was right; he was the wisest man in Athens, because he was the only man who knew that he really knew nothing.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 1 in 17 people in America lives with a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, major depression, or bipolar disorder.  Approximately 20% of youths ages 13 to 18 experience a severe mental disorder in a given year.  The community services available for these people are disappearing at an alarming rate.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“No one can learn to be at home in his own heaven, until he learns to be at home in his own hell".”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“We should be doing everything we can to enhance our surroundings to promote alpha waves, to promote relaxed, creative thought.  Take a nice warm bath, light some candles, play some smooth jazz.  Meditation is at the top of the list of things we can do to create alpha waves in our mind.  Even meditating for just for a few minutes can do the trick, and you can do that anytime, any place.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“one of the best things to say to an upset or difficult person is to nicely ask them what they want me to do to make things better.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“The best place to start with this process is to assume that everyone is smarter than you are, and that they have more information than you do.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Forgiveness is another ingredient that the recipe of a good relationship cannot do without.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“If we're going to watch TV, we should make sure we're going to learn something constructive from it.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“The flow process should make a productive contribution to your life.  This generally excludes mindless vacation activities, unless of course you turn them into something that requires learning, brain growth, and challenge; then you get full credit.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“The goal is to feel this good actually living your life, not by imagining you're living someone else's.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Simply put, a flow activity is something that we really enjoy doing that is also constructive, productive, challenging, and requires us to learn and develop new skills.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Survivors are guided by an internal compass that always points to living and getting the most out of life.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Everyone is not going to act the way we think they should, so we need to consider where they're coming from; our way isn't necessarily the best way, or the only way.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“we're trying to improve the quality of our lives, as well as those around us,”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“the best things to say to an upset or difficult person is to nicely ask them what they want me to do to make things better.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Socratic Method.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“In any case, Socrates was able to control his thinking and live consciously by mastering the art of asking the right questions.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Without asking the right questions, we will be sailing aimlessly towards oblivion.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“From the moment we wake up in the morning, we should start the day by figuring out what it is exactly that we need to do to get ourselves closer to where we want to be.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Golden Gate Bridge is the most popular spot for committing suicide in the country, and some sources state that it's the most popular site in the world.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“There was a beautiful picture of the Golden Gate Bridge with the blue sky, mountains, and ocean in the background.  In front of it was a large expanse of what appeared to be many different pairs of empty shoes, hundreds if not thousands of them.  I thought it was some silly work of art, and there were people all around it taking pictures, but what it turned out to be was a display of shoes representing all of the people who killed themselves by jumping off the bridge during the 75 years of the Golden Gate Bridge's history.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets