The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination – continually criticizing himself for past mistakes – continually condemning himself for past sins.
Unthaw and become more natural.
The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.
Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.
Your present negative beliefs were formed by thought PLUS feelings. Generate enough emotion, or deep feeling and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them out.
See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner.
Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.
Do your worrying before you place your bet, not after the wheel stops turning.
As soon as the error has been recognized and corrections made, it’s equally important that the error be forgotten and the successful attempt remembered and dwelt upon.
Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.
Plan all you want for the future. Prepare for it. But don’t worry about how you will react tomorrow, or even five minutes from now. Your creative mechanism will react appropriately in the ‘now’ if you pay attention to what is happening now.
Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
Ignore past failures and forge ahead.
Failure feelings – fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence – do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.
You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life – to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.
Why not imagine yourself successful?
Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.
Admit your mistakes but don’t cry over them. Correct them and go forward.
One’s capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one’s capacity for happiness.