I'm studying Applications for Psychology and came to a chapter of Positive Psychology. I learnt a few good quotes that i want to share with all of you.

"Great performers focus on what they are doing, and nothing else.... They are able to engage in a task so completely that there is no room left for self-criticism, judgment, or doubt; to stay loose and supremely, even irrationally, self-confident...They let it happen, let it go. They couldn't care less about the results." ~ Dr. John Eliot from Overachievement

"This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche from Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Learned helplessness is the giving up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter. Explanatory style is the manner in which you habitually explain to yourself why events happen. It is the great modulator of learned helplessness. An optimistic explanatory style stops helplessness, whereas a pessimistic explanatory style spreads helplessness." ~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism

"The most enlightened people in the world embrace their full potential of light and dark. When you're with people who recognize and own their negative qualities, you never feel judged by them. It's only when people see good and bad, right and wrong, as qualities outside themselves that judgments occur." ~ Deepak Chopra from The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire

"Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition."

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." ~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations

I found one that i can use. =x

Be Unreasonable

"Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don't aim for it all, you'll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want." ~ Richard Koch from The 80/20 Principle

"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible." ~ Viktor Frankl from Man's Search for Meaning"Be not afraid of going slowly but only afraid of standing still." ~ Chinese Proverb

Read more from this website: http://philosophersnotes.com

It's got really nice encouraging quotes. =D

Okay. I'm going back to study about dogs.

Don't ask.

"And this marks THE END of the entry."

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