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"Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves."
"In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult. There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult. ... There exist in the child certain attitudes and beliefs which intellectual development will more and more tend to eliminate: there are others which will acquire more and more importance. The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them."
"If I wait until I become perfect before I love myself, I will waste my whole life. I am already perfect right here and right now. I am perfect exactly as I am."
"My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect."
"World series attitude, champagne bottle life, nothing ever changes so tonight is like tomorrow night."
"Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill."
"The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work."
"We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips."
"Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has more latent power than he ever learns to use. You may have knowledge, sound judgment, good reasoning faculties; but no one-not even yourself-will know it until you discover how to put your heart into thought and action."
"The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms."
"Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart."
"The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning."
"They did not know it was impossible so they did it"
"There's no such thing as good weather, or bad weather. There's just weather and your attitude towards it."
"Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own."
"Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
"Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit."
"The quickest way to correct the other fellow's attitude is to correct your own."
"Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it."
"Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece."
