Quotes by Authors - Page 118

Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
All happiness is in the mind.
Anonymous
Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
What you think means more than anything else in your life.
George Matthew Adams
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.
Tyron Edwards
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
Francis Marion Crawford
As you think you travel and as you love you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Lane Allen
Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick.
Dr. Frank Crane
Our destiny changes with our thoughts we shall become what we wish to become do what we wish to do when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.
Orison Swett Marden
I believe that if you think about disaster you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith and life becomes more secure more fraught with action richer in achievement and experience.
Eddie Rickenbacker
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? ... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.
Thomas Dreier
The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant we must think in limitless terms of abundance.
Thomas Dreier
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.... Whatever your present environment may be you will fall remain or rise with your thoughts your vision your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Lane Allen
Although none of the rules for becoming alive is valid it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Susan Sontag
A man is literally what he thinks.
James Lane Allen
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairingly acutely miserable racked with sorrow but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen wind and weather permitting.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving if you are friendly if you are helpful the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.
Thomas Dreier
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you laugh at it and with it and it is a jolly kind companion.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else.
Thomas Fuller
The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau
Lifting as they climb onward and upward they go struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of their desires may burst into glorious fruition ere long.
Mary Church Terrell
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.
Jules Renard
For years I wanted to be older and now I am.
Margaret Atwood
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
Colleen C. Barrett
When you're in love you put up with things that when you're out of love you cite.
Judith Martin
Women forget all the things they don't want to remember and remember everything they don't want to forget.
Zora Neale Hurston
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
Ernest Holmes
Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.
Peace Pilgrim
Every thought we think is creating our future.
Louise L. Hay
I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive nurturing and healing thoughts.
Alice Potter
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident a tight girdle a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst
Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams a shadow annihilates them.
George Eliot
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
Life has indeed many ills but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.
Lydia H. Sigourney
Could we change our attitude we should not only see life differently but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
Katherine Mansfield
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller
A good heart will help you to a bonny face my lad ... and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
Emily Brontë
Man's rise or fall success or failure happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.
James Lane Allen
Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.
Joan Lunden
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend ... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present-love health family friends work the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure-the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Teenagers travel in droves packs swarms. ... To the librarian they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
I actually remember feeling delight at two o'clock in the morning when the baby woke for his feed because I so longed to have another look at him.
Margaret Drabble
The pure the beautiful the bright That stirred our hearts in youth The impulse to a wordless prayer The dreams of love and truth The longings after something lost The spirit's yearning cry The strivings after better hopes These things can never die.
Sarah Doudney
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
Amelia Barr
Being tall is an advantage especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd you'll always have some clean air to breathe.
Julia Child
If you look at life one way there is always cause for alarm.
Elizabeth Bowen
She was one of those happily created beings who please without effort make friends everywhere and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.
Louisa May Alcott
If you think you can you can. And if you think you can't you're right.
Mary Kay Ash
This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it!
Eleanor Roosevelt
The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.
Katherine Paterson
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true within limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are beliefs to be transcended.
John Lilly
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
You have to believe in happiness or happiness never comes.
Douglas Malloch
If you constantly think of illness you eventually become ill if you believe yourself to be beautiful you become so.
Shakti Gawain