"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed."

Vivekananda, Swami on fear
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"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

Buddha on control
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"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on control
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"Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world."

Montapert, Alfred A. on control   

"Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade."

Barrie, Sir James M. on anger
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"The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."

Barrie, Sir James M. on life
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"Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."

Barrie, Sir James M. on belief
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"What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also."

Caesar, Julius on belief
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"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."

Baldwin, James on belief
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"There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention."

Baldwin, James on failure
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"If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big."

Trump, Donald on dream
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"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

Beecher, Henry Ward on gratitude
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"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."

Beecher, Henry Ward on gratitude
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"There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy."

Blum, Ralph H. on gratitude
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"Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, Joy is not in things, it is in us."

Borysenko, Joan on gratitude   

"Grace is available for each of us every day -- our spiritual daily bread -- but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow."

Breathnach, Sarah Ban on gratitude
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"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."

Breathnach, Sarah Ban on gratitude
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"Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance -- it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart."

Breathnach, Sarah Ban on gratitude
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"It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment."

Bernard, St. on humility
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"Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame."

General Iroh on humility
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"Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. [Philippians 2:3]"

Bible on humility
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"I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]"

Bible on joy
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"A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory."

Corneille, Pierre on victory
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"Peace is produced by war."

Corneille, Pierre on peace
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"Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police."

Einstein, Albert on peace
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"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness."

Corneille, Pierre on perfection
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"One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on."

Simmons, Jake on knowledge
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"We must open the doors of opportunity."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on opportunity   

"I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on vision
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"The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on churches   

"People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too."

Carey, George on churches   

"The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress."

Goldsmith, Oliver on psychology   

"Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on psychology   

"The intellect is always fooled by the heart."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on psychology   

"We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead."

Lawrence, D. H. on psychology   

"Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear."

Ovid on psychology   

"When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself."

Plato on psychology
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"A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter."

Sontag, Susan on psychology
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"A vigorous five mile walk will do more good for an unhappy, but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world."

White, Paul Dudley on psychology