“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.”
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
“Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
“Belief creates the actual fact.”
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.”
“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. ”
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task.”
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”
“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.”
“To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.”
“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.”
“No decision is, in itself, a decision.”
“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”
“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.”
“Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.”
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
“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 greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.”
“Act the part and you will become the part.”
“The strenuous life tastes better.”
“If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.”
“My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.”
“A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.”
“From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.”
“Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do.”
“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.”
“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.”
“The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.”
“Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.”
“What holds attention determines action.”
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
“Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.”
“So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.”
“He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.”
“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.”
“To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.”
“Agisci come se quel che fai, facesse la differenza. La fa!”
“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”
“Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.”
“If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.”
“The word ‘cause’ is an altar to an unknown god.”
“My experience is what I agree to attend to.”
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”
“All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.”
“Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.”
“To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.”
“When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.”
“In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.”
“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.”
“History is a bath of blood.”
“With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.”
“Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.”
“The education of attention would be an education par excellence.”
“The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.”
“We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.”
“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.”
“Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.”
“We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.”
“There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.”
“In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.”
“Man lives for science as well as bread.”
“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.”
“In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.”
“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.”
“We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.”
“An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.”
“Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.”
“The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.”
“Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.”
“There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.”
“An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.”
“Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience.”
“Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.”
“The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.”
“Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.”
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