The Joy of Not Thinking Quotes

“am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”
― Tim Grimes, The Joy of Not Thinking: A Radical Approach to Happiness

“The less you mentally try hard to get something—the less you aspire to be someone or do something through hard thinking—the more productive you’ll be in a real way.”
― Tim Grimes, The Joy of Not Thinking: A Radical Approach to Happiness

“Nothing culturally is the way it’s pumped up to be. You think that the prince of Monaco really has it that great? Or that athlete, or that actress, or that Nobel laureate, or that garbage man, or anybody? Well, they do have it great if they enjoy it and are at peace. If they’re happy in the moment a lot of the time. But this idea of being or becoming something special is really a sham. When we had the aspiration to be somebody special in a pure way, it was probably when we were like six years old. We wanted to be a fireman, or a ballerina, or something like that, and it was a genuine aspiration. Then we lost it. As our aspirations change with our age, they become less genuine. And we become less genuine because we get lost in our thoughts and our ideas of what certain things will bring us. And the truth is they won’t bring us anything. There are no things, only thoughts. And they aren’t real either. So, the only thing to aspire to, if you want to aspire to anything, is some satisfaction right now. A moment-to-moment sense of peace. A very basic thing. It’s something that we likely had when we were much younger, for the most part. And something we often do not have now.”
― Tim Grimes, The Joy of Not Thinking: A Radical Approach to Happiness

“It’s easy to cut down the amount of time you spend brooding over your perceived problems—you just decide to do it and follow through with it as best you can.”
― Tim Grimes, The Joy of Not Thinking: A Radical Approach to Happiness

“Émile Coué, probably my favorite teacher on this subject, summed it up well when he said, “The influence of the mind upon the body exists undeniably, and is infinitely greater than is commonly supposed.”
― Tim Grimes, The Joy of Not Thinking: A Radical Approach to Happiness

“Self-talk—speaking out loud to yourself—enables you to see the duplicity of your inner talking. The overthinking in your head can be erased by speaking out loud about how ridiculous and unnecessary that thinking is.”
― Tim Grimes, The Joy of Not Thinking: A Radical Approach to Happiness

“I just remind myself that life is always much, much, much better than I think it is.” And he was right.”
― Tim Grimes, The Joy of Not Thinking: A Radical Approach to Happiness

“To dissolve a problem that now seems so real to you all that you do is remove your attention from it. In spite of its seeming reality, turn from it in consciousness. Become indifferent and begin to feel yourself to be that which would be the solution of the problem.”
― Tim Grimes, The Joy of Not Thinking: A Radical Approach to Happiness