You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Appearance rules the world.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

Most bold change is the result of a hundred thousand tiny changes that culminate in a bold product or procedure or structure.

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

They [the Americans] have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.

Change, But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, “Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.”

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

What is a man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.