Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
Philosophy is “an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
Belief creates the actual fact.
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.
Psychology is the science of mental life.
A stream of ideal tendency embedded in the external structure of the world.” WJ., p. 554.
We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.
Cara untuk menjadi bijaksana adalah tahu apa yang harus dimaafkan.
It matters not to an empiricist from what quarter an hypothesis may come to him: he may have acquired it by fair means or by foul; passion may have whispered or accident suggested it; but if the total drift of thinking continues to confirm it, that is what he means by its being true.
What right have we to believe Nature under any obligation to do her work by means of complete minds only? She may find an incomplete mind a more suitable instrument for a particular purpose.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
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.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.