Mindset is everything.

Affirmations and thoughts I find helpful. The mental side of my self improvement journey. My main blog, regarding my physical fitness and other hobbies, is @improvingovertime

[myshizukesa]

[the-hope-of-a-new-day]

[the-hope-of-a-new-day]

[philosophybits]

“There are external obstacles… but if you accept the obstacle and work with what you’re given, an alternative will present itself — another piece of what you’re trying to assemble. Action by action.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (8.32)

[cleverwordsandotherstuffilike]

"I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears." Carl Jung

[philosophybits]

“We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt, Tomorrow Is Now

[spiritualseeker777]

[shezze-blog1]

I’m upset because I want to change the world but the world is too big and people are too mean

[wufflesvetinari]

“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.” - Rabbi Tarfon

[mangozetango]

I needed to hear this

[antique-scarecrow]

not obligated to complete the work, not free to abandon it.

[psychology-daily]

[philosophybits]

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

— Henry David Thoreau, Walden

[philosophybits]

“Practice yourself in little things; and thence proceed to greater.”

— Epictetus, Discourses

[philosophybits]

“I go around doing nothing but persuading both young and old among you not to care for your body or your wealth in preference to or as strongly as for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.”

— Socrates, in Plato’s Apology

[philosophybits]

“Life is short. That’s all there is to say. Get what you can from the present — thoughtfully, justly.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (4.26)

[aspiritualwarrior]

“Greed keeps us focused on what we do not have, and blinds us to all that we already have. Greed guarantees that no matter how much we acquire, it will never be enough. Building a society or a life based on greed is a recipe for dissatisfaction, plain and simple.”

— 17th Karmapa

[philosophybits]

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (6.51)

[rippleintheloch]

[ailovemyself]

“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”

— Marcus Aurelius