Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can only be obtained by involving yourselves in debt.
Brigham YoungRead
If the Devil can only make you think that you are abused or ill treated, and you begin to fret about it, and you give the Devil power over you - in the end, it is as bad as though you had done wrong yourself.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote suggests that negative thoughts can empower negativity, leading to harm regardless of actual wrongdoing.
Brigham Young's quote emphasizes the power of perception and mindset. It argues that if one believes they are mistreated or abused, and dwells on these thoughts, they effectively allow negativity to control their life. This mindset can be just as damaging as if one had actually committed a wrongdoing. The quote highlights the importance of maintaining a positive outlook and not succumbing to destructive thoughts that can lead to suffering, implying that our mental state can influence our reality.
Themes
MindsetPerceptionNegativityControlPower
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational speech about overcoming mental barriers.
More from Brigham Young
All quotes →Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
Brigham YoungRead
Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.
Brigham YoungRead
I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they are led by Him. I am fearful they settle down in a state of blind self-security... Let every man and woman know, by the whispering of the Spirit of God to themselves, whether their leaders are walking in the path the Lord dictates, or not.
Brigham YoungRead
It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him.
Brigham YoungRead
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Brigham YoungRead
Similar quotes
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.
Paulo CoelhoRead
To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.
George OrwellRead
Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.
Jean-Luc GodardRead
Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes - "with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other," says Billy Pilgrim.
Kurt VonnegutRead
This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slavery and redemption, of improbable paradises, of equally mythical and improbable enemies; cosmic enemies, perverse and subtle, who pervade everything like the air.
Primo LeviRead
It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
E. B. WhiteRead