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“For every minute you're angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind" -Ralph Waldo Emerson”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“For every minute you're angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind" -Ralph Waldo Emerson     My”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“We're all walking around like zombies half the time, and since the default setting of the mind is somewhere between chaos at one extreme and apathetic negativity at the other, we spend a good bit of our time just feeling like crap, unless of course you're taking a “feel-good” pill, then you might feel a little bit better than crap, except for the potential side-effects of drowsiness, decreased motivation and sex-drive, nausea, and anal leakage (just kidding, I don't think anal leakage is a true side-effect, but it may”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“There was a beautiful picture of the Golden Gate Bridge with the blue sky, mountains, and ocean in the background.  In front of it was a large expanse of what appeared to be many different pairs of empty shoes, hundreds if not thousands of them.  I thought it was some silly work of art, and there were people all around it taking pictures, but what it turned out to be was a display of shoes representing all of the people who killed themselves by jumping off the bridge during the 75 years of the Golden Gate Bridge's history.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“In the end, the happiest people will be those who refuse to let their unfulfilled hopes and dreams turn into the whispered regrets that so many people utter with their last few breaths.   *”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“According to the Centers for Disease Control, about 25% of US adults have a diagnosable mental illness. That's about 60 million people, or 1 in 4 adults; and 50% of the US population will experience at least one mental illness during their lifetime.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Socrates' Way: Seven Keys to Using Your Mind to The Utmost, by Ronald Gross.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“we're trying to improve the quality of our lives, as well as those around us,”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Worrying about stuff that doesn't really matter is also wasted time.  If I'm worried about something, I often ask myself if it's something I'll give a crap about on my deathbed; the answer is usually “no”, but if the answer is “yes” then I need to fix the problem so I don't regret it later on.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Narcissism stems from the need to fill a great void, but the void cannot be filled by distractions of immediate gratification and passive pleasure seeking.  It can only be filled by reparenting and rebuilding the strength in our ego and our self-esteem.  We can't give to others something that we haven't even given to ourselves, and if we don't understand how we feel, how can we understand how others feel? The moral of the story is that if we accept the good and the bad, and truly love ourselves in a healthy way, we will have confidence in our abilities to make ourselves happy. Then the light of beauty that shines within us will be brighter to us than anyone else’s, and we'll know that this inner light will remain within us forever.  Wherever we go and no matter what happens to us, it will always be shining.  This”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Jeffrey Kluger wrote a fascinating article in Time Magazine entitled, “When Worry Hijacks The Brain”,”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Without asking the right questions, we will be sailing aimlessly towards oblivion.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“The flow process should make a productive contribution to your life.  This generally excludes mindless vacation activities, unless of course you turn them into something that requires learning, brain growth, and challenge; then you get full credit.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go” -T. S. Eliot”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Socratic Method.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“those who tend to get depressed following setbacks in life differ from others in how they explain such events to themselves.  They take them as confirmation of lack of self-worth, instead of seeing them merely as temporary reversals of fortune.  This difference in explanatory styles turns out to be the key difference between optimists and pessimists.   One”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“I always knew there were many other people who, like myself, had trouble figuring things out.  They never figured out how to stop making the same mistakes, over and over again.  They never figured out how to feel better, and how to think better.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“The best place to start with this process is to assume that everyone is smarter than you are, and that they have more information than you do.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Worrying about stuff that doesn't really matter is also wasted time.  If I'm worried about something, I often ask myself if it's something I'll give a crap about on my deathbed; the answer is usually “no”, but if the answer is “yes” then I need to fix the problem so I don't regret it later on.   In”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“the best things to say to an upset or difficult person is to nicely ask them what they want me to do to make things better.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“achieving a state of flow is not the answer to everything.  It is however an essential part of the equation for having a good life, but the more chaos you have in your mind, the harder you're going to have to work to control it.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift, that is why it is called the present" -Kung Fu Panda”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift, that is why it is called the present" -Kung Fu Panda   We've”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“No one can learn to be at home in his own heaven, until he learns to be at home in his own hell".”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Dr. Doidge explains that once our thoughts go down a pathway, it becomes easier for our brain to choose this pathway that has already been created, whether good or bad.  So it's up to us to prevent the creation and use of bad pathways, and instead make new pathways that lead to positive thinking and good habits.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Happy is he who knows that he knows nothing, or next to nothing, and holds his opinions like a bouquet of flowers in his hand, that sheds its fragrance everywhere, and which he is willing to exchange at any moment for one fairer and more sweet, instead of strapping them on like an armor of steel and thrusting with his lance those who do not accept his notions. -Francis Willard”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“It amazes me how some people spend most of their time on them.  I don't know how on Earth they get anything done with the time it takes to continuously be updating their pages every time they fart. "Hey, Beth here, I just farted.  Let me know what you think, thanks."   We”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“Simply put, a flow activity is something that we really enjoy doing that is also constructive, productive, challenging, and requires us to learn and develop new skills.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets

“My other advice to you is, don't get sick.  If chaos is in your mind, it will be in your heart and body, and you will get sick, I guarantee it.”
― D.E. Boyer, Master Your Mind: The More You Think, The Easier It Gets