“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”
— William James
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
“Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.”
“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
“I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.”
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
“Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
“Belief creates the actual fact.”
“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.”
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. ”
“Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.”
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”
“Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task.”
“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”
“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”
“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.”
“To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.”
“Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction”
“No decision is, in itself, a decision.”
“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.”
“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
“Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.”
“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.”
“Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.”
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”
“To kill time is not murder, it’s suicide.”
“We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh.”
“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.”
“Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.”
“Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.”
“The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.”
“If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.”
“Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.”
“Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.”
“Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.”
“Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.”
“The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.”
“Act the part and you will become the part.”
“The strenuous life tastes better.”
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
“My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.”
“My experience is what I agree to attend to.”
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