Quotes by Authors - Page 86

Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
Susan Taylor
Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
Abel Stevens
When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Keller
The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
L. P. Jacks
One of the most devastating experiences in human life is disillusionment.
Art Sisson
You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.
Jerry Rubin
Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
Ruth Gordon
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot
The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.
Bette Davis
You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.
Sydney Biddle Barrows
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
Franchise Sagan
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
George Eliot
In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.
Catharine Marshall
My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.
Shirley Maclaine
Most of the time we think we're sick it's all in the mind.
Thomas Wolfe
You can promote your healing by your thinking.
James E. Sweeney
Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.
Ann Landers
A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes but it leaves a bitter scar.
Margaret Deland
After you're older two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Helen Gurley Brown
It isn't our position but our disposition that makes us happy.
Anonymous
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
Thomas Fuller
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.
Norman Cousins
Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
All happiness is in the mind.
Anonymous
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
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