If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
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Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
I am not remotely interested in just being good.
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Aloha is free.
Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.
Impossible is just an opinion.
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
Man is a universe in little.
The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.
Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.
It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.
I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.