“Energy doesn t lie. Keep sensing it, trusting it, letting it liberate you.”
“We do not become happy. We stop being unhappy.”
“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I m going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.”
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
“Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They ll not be able to once you lop off their heads.”
“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
“Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.”
“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
“Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. ”
“Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.”
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one s own way.”
“A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.”
“I ve had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I ve got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I m in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!”