
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
- Topic: Affirmation, Belief, Faith, Stress, Thinking
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.
Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value.
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?
I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.
What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.
Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
Do not hide your faith and your beliefs under a bushel basket, especially in this world that seems to have gone mad with political correctness.
Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.
Men should strive to think much and know little.
