2013 TKR: Quick quotes about moods

Quick quotes about moods
Self-help--Thinkerer

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• The reason quotes stick around is that they fit lots of things.  
• So look them over.  
• You may find one that fits you.  
• Or somebody you know.

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• Who’s to blame is a childhood game.
• Your ability to relax is in direct proportion to your ability to trust life. 
• Two things not to worry about; what you can change, and what you can't. 
• You can't be hopeless if you can choose. Unless you choose to be hopeless. 
• Who on your head team matches your mood? 
• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. Hamlet. 

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• The time for conflict with yourself is before the choice. 
• You don’t like it? Do it first. Then you have time to celebrate. 
• Pick your fights. Do not get too much practice at being defeated. 
• Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. 
• Anger is energy. You focus it on your goal. Or waste it on something else. You choose. 
• You never have to protect what you give away. 

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• Guilt serves to make sure you don't learn from your mistakes.
• A cardboard castle is made to be defended. But no one is made to defend it. 
• Never question authority. It doesn't know either. 
• Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you all day. 
• I put in an application to the optimists club, but I don't think they're going to accept it. 
• People don’t notice the road. Only the bumps. 

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• The man who smiles when things go bad has just thought of someone he can blame it on. 
• If you always succeed, you are overqualified for your job. 
• My reality check bounced. 
• The world owes you nothing. It was here first. 
• A conflict is just an opportunity being mishandled. 
• Don't talk about what you were. Talk about what you are becoming.

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• Do not expect to play God and win. 
• The Power of Positive Planning. 
• We have met the enemy and he is us. -- Pogo
• He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day. 
• A laugh an hour will sweeten the sour.
• Keep links to things that make you laugh. You never know when you'll need them. 

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• The function of guilt is to relieve you of responsibility. 
• Use your feelings or your feelings will use you. 
• If you are bored, blame it on your friends. After all, they will blame it on you. 
• Guilt is like a box of chocolates. You can’t pass it around without tasting it yourself. 
• He’s a dirty, rotten scoundrel. But he has the decency to feel guilty about it.
• Professionals don’t get mad. They get busy. 

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• If you feel conflicts in yourself, think of it as politics in your Head Office. 
• Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone. 
• We wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we knew how seldom they do. 
• Worrying about what others think of you? Why is their judgment better than yours? 
• Notice other people's moods. What would you like to tell them? 
• “Life is hard.” Compared to what? 

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• Half-hearted is half-headed. Half headed one way, half headed the other. 
• You can't change the past. You can change your future. So which do you focus on? 
• How can you find satisfaction if you don’t know what you will be satisfied with? 
• Worry is no substitute for planning. 
• If you want to find the Hunter, you have to know the game. 
• Look for cues that influence your moods. He who runs the cues directs the story. 

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• Worry grows from feeling powerless. What can you do beyond feeling powerless? 
• The Hunters are the mood for hunting. 
• The answer is not in what you can be told, but in what you can become.
• Do you know how to make you mood fit your task? 
• Keep track of the things you can do well enough to please yourself.
• A game is not useless if it lifts your mood. 

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• Savor small successes. They don't look so easy until you succeed. 
• Modesty is not one of my weaknesses.
• You can't get there till you know where you are going.
• No matter where you go, there you are.
• It is not about what you can't do. It is about what you can do.
• Anger management: don't get mad. Get busy 

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