Ervin Seale famous quotes

It is what you think of this situation that governs you and not the situation itself. Causation is always in mind and not in things.
-- Ervin Seale

#Thinking #Mind #Situation

It is not what is happening to you but rather what is happening in you that determines whether you succeed or fail.
-- Ervin Seale

#Succeed #Failing #Determine

You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is dependent entirely upon what you are inside yourself
-- Ervin Seale

#Beautiful #Philosophy #May

There is one recurring, persistent, perennial, and dogging personal problem which, more than any other, steals the force and peace of people and ruins projects and enterprises and careers. It is the habit of feeling hurt, because of what others do, or do not do and what they say or do not say
-- Ervin Seale

#Hurt #Careers #People

Perpetual emotion is the past time of the undisciplined mind.
-- Ervin Seale

#Past #Mind #Emotion

The unorganized mind will always be restless until its content is reordered.
-- Ervin Seale

#Mind #Restless

Keep any description of trouble or sickness or error minimal, for there is something inside which is listening, and it says, 'Oh! You like this! I will make you a lot more of it.'
-- Ervin Seale

#Errors #Listening #Sickness

Many centuries ago, Oriental thinkers recognized that the mind is a constant mover and that it is next to impossible to stop it altogether. But one can learn to manage it by skillful use of the handle of control. They compared the mind to a jumping monkey. To intensify the image, they added that the monkey was maddened; then someone got him drunk; and finally, a scorpion bit him.
-- Ervin Seale

#Jumping #Drunk #Mind

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.

Death by hanging...well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.

The United States often finds itself in a situation where if it goes in militarily then it is criticized for going in militarily, and if it doesn't go in militarily, then people say, why aren't you doing something militarily?