Andrew Bernstein famous quotes

03-24-2025

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Struggle #Hero #Men
A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Hero #Needs #Undaunted
If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Stress #Successful #Succeed
We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Stress #Needs #Pushing
The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Inspirational #Stress #Kids
We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Stress #Goal #Upset
Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Stress #Remember
The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Stress #Numbers #Balance
The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Real #Stress #Thinking
The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Worry #Balance #Hormones
Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Believe #Negative #Want
Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Country #Religious #Supernatural Beings
Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or create man-glorifying art, pioneer scientific knowledge or invent the electric light, independent thinkers have created the goods on which human life and prosperity depend.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Art #Philosophy #Independent
Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Stress #People #Remember
You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Thinking #Choices #Mind
Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades, The Inquisition, Calvin's Geneva all prove that this is not the case. These events were pre-eminently about obedience to authority.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Men #Atheism #Fellow Man
Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Men #Essence #Agony
Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Oppression #Individual #States
... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it thereby causes abysmal poverty and is utterly impractical.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Men #Rights #Mind
Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Demand #Firsts #Ethics
People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Stress #People #Engagement
Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Stress #Negative #Engagement
Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Stress #Bored #Arsenic
Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Stress #Negative #Looks
It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Stress
The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Stress #Thinking #Reason

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