Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown – but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.
Do not say to yourself, ‘I am going to act this way tomorrow.’ Just say to yourself – ‘I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW – for 30 minutes – today.’
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.
Your nervous system can’t tell real failure from imagined failure.
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.
If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.
Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, ‘It’s no use – I can’t do it.’
Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.
I may be a mistake maker, but I’m also a mistake breaker.
Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.
When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all – they are simply “passed over” and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.
It takes 21 days to develop a habit.
Happiness isn’t something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.
The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.