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"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."
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results."
"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
"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."
"Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves."
"There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking."
"Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take on important initiatives. Negative images of the future also have a magnetism. They pull the spirit downward in the path of despair."
"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
"If you can change your mind, you can change your life."
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
"You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind."
"Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes."
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain 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."
"Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
"We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom."
"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."
"You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly."