To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Times will change for the better when you change.
Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.
When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possilble. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.
Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.
You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.
You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.
Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'
A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.
We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.
This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.
Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.
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