Watch Your Thoughts

"Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny."

-- Mahatma Gandhi


"To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj


"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."

-- Henry Ford


"When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless."

-- Byron Katie

Say Why Not

"Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and say, 'Why not?'."

-- George Bernard Shaw


"Everyone adds something to a situation by their actions and words. The very first things said or done, will quickly decide what happens next, positive or negative. Be patient and empathetic, and the direction usually goes positive."

-- Gary Rudz


"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."

-- Friedrich Engels


"Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."

-- Hans Margolius

Universe Never Perishes

"Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase 'being born' is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while 'dying' means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sum of things remains unchanged."

-- Ovid Metamorphoses


"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation."

-- Jiddu Krishnamurti


"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours."

-- Richard Bach (Illusions)


"The true profession of man is to find his way to himself."

-- Hermann Hesse

Captain of a Spaceship

"You are like a captain of a spaceship in the universe, a spaceship made up of your mind and body and driven by your unique energy and enthusiasm."

-- Tony Buzan


"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."

-- Anne Frank


"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

-- Warren Buffett


"More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching...."

-- Sogyal Rinpoche

Our Life Our Thoughts

"The universe is change, our life is what our thoughts make it."

-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


"I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of quiet life stimulates the creative mind."

-- Albert Einstein


"Give yourself entirely to those around you. Be generous with your blessings. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal."

-- Steve Maraboli


"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

-- John Wooden

Positive Emotions

"A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith. A mind so dominated may, at will, give the subconscious mind instructions, which it will accept and act upon immediately."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles."

-- Helen Keller


"The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on."

-- Oscar Wilde


"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."

-- Confucius

To Change Situation

"We began to realize that if we wanted to change the situation, we first had to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions."

-- Stephen R. Covey


"Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress."

-- Alfred A. Montapert


"The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful."

-- Doug Henning


"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

-- George S. Patton

What Beliefs Are

"Beliefs are what make the difference between a lifetime of joyous contribution and one of misery and devastation. Beliefs are what separate a Mozart from a Manson. Beliefs are what cause come individuals to become heroes, while others 'lead lives of quiet desperation.'"

-- Anthony Robbins


"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."

-- Mahatma Gandhi


"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."

-- Thomas A. Bennett


"We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars."

-- Alan Chadwick

It Takes Practice

"To become an expert achiever in any human achiever in any human activity, it takes practice ... practice ... practice."

-- W. Clement Stone


"You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"

-- George Bernard Shaw


"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

-- Helen Keller


"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right."

-- Henry Ford

Building Self-Esteem

"Self-esteem comes from within and is about how you perceive yourself. There is no quick way to building self-esteem; it is enhanced gradually via continual reinforcement of your self-worth."

-- Graham Jones


"Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another."

-- Richard Bach (Illusions)


"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

-- Lewis Carroll


"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

-- Confucius