The past has no power over the present moment.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
The secret to freedom is to realize that you don’t have to believe your mind. You don’t have to believe your story. You don’t have to believe that voice in your head. You don’t have to believe your own thinking. You can simply observe it and say, “Thank you for sharing,” and then take the necessary action you’re scared to take anyway.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
True health begins with your thoughts. Thinking about comfort, strength, flexibility and youthfulness attracts those qualities into your life and body. Dwelling on illness, fear, disease and pain does just the opposite. Your work is to notice and change your thoughts and move them in the direction of health and happiness.
I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.
Every time you think you can’t do something... someone else thinks they can.
It takes as little as 1% of a population to create positive change, and I believe that if 100 million people underwent a personal transformation in the direction of peace, harmony, laughter, love, kindness, and joy...the world would be transformed.
People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Well, in regards to surfing, I’ve learned that there is always another wave coming. Translated that means there is always tomorrow. No matter how badly you get caught inside, if you can just hang in there and keep paddling, the set is going to pass and there will be a lull afterwards. So don’t give up, just take your pounding, wait until the set passes, then make your move.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive.
If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.
Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.
If you're ever if you're ever thinking, “Oh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don't you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
nothing is impossible
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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