"The mind is everything:
What you think, you become," ~ Buddha.
I think it's important to be careful of the scripts of thoughts we think or tell ourselves. In some measure, I think there is a certain truth to this particular Buddhist maxim.
Side note for homoe: Thanks for taking the time to add toward exploration of things we oft hear and internalize as either true or false or further assign meaning too. So much to say, but it's time for supper (......).