Before the state of stress or depression comes some frequent negative interpretations of one’s experiences.

A lot of people live miserably not because their lives are worse than others, but because their repeated negative interpretations of their experiences bring greater pain to their minds than their physical problems.

No one can take your joy away from you, unless you willingly give it to them through repeated negative interpretations of your experiences.

Circumstances don’t come to distract you from the spirit of gratitude; negative interpretations of them do.

It is not one’s negative situation that causes stress in one’s life; rather, it is one’s frequent negative interpretation of it that has the power to do so.

A lot of people blame their negative feelings on their negative experiences; but little do they know that their negative feelings are nothing but the products of their negative interpretations of their negative experiences.