17 Quotes by John Seymour

Emotions make excellent servants, but tyrannical masters.

To believe that someone else is responsible for your emotional state is to give them a sort of psychic power over you they do not have... we really do generate our own feelings. No one else can do it for us. We respond and are responsible. To think other people are responsible for our feelings is to inhabit a billiard ball, inanimate universe.

Why’ questions have little value, at best they get justifications or long explanations which do nothing to change the situation.

We all have beliefs and expectations from our personal experience; it is impossible to live without them. Since we have to make some assumptions, they might as well be ones that allow us freedom, choice and fun in the world, rather than ones that limit us. You often get what you expect to get.

No one can consistently get everything wrong. Such perfection does not exist.

As long as you believe it is impossible, you will actually never find out if it is possible or not.

When we believe something, we act as if it is true.

Questions are also interventions. A good question can take a person’s mind in a completely new direction and change his life. For example, ask yourself frequently, ‘What is the most useful question to ask now?