"To let a sad thought or a..." - Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett
To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live.
More by Frances Hodgson Burnett
“Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.”
“a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.”
“You see, now that trials have come, they have shown that I am NOT a nice child. I was afraid they would. Perhaps... that is what they were sent for... I suppose there MIGHT be good in things, even if we don't see it.”
More on Mind
“I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind.”
“It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.”
“Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.”
More on Thought
“She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.”
“Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.”
“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”