If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
A thing is important if anyone think it important.
The strenuous life tastes better
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
Belief creates the actual fact.
Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.
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.
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
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.
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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.
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