Mindset

“Thought is mind in motion, and every activity upon this earth began as a secret thought.”

Annie Rix Militz

Prosperity Through the Knowledge and Power of Mind

“Get into the prosperity thought and you will demonstrate prosperity.”

Charles & Myrtle Fillmore

Prosperity

“If you know how to take hold of the universal substance and mold it to your uses, you will be prosperous.”

Charles & Myrtle Fillmore

Prosperity

“Thoughts are causes and conditions are effects.”

Charles F. Haanel

The Master Key System

“Act is the blossom of thought, and conditions are the result of action.”

Charles F. Haanel

The Master Key System

“A happy thought cannot exist in an unhappy consciousness; therefore the consciousness must change.”

Charles F. Haanel

The Master Key System

“Every phenomenon is the result of an accurate definite cause, and the cause is an immutable law or principle.”

Charles F. Haanel

The Master Key System

“Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.”

Christian D. Larson

Your Forces and How to Use Them

“Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best.”

Christian D. Larson

Your Forces and How to Use Them

“It is impossible to think of two things at once.”

Emile Coué

Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion

“We are what we make ourselves and not what circumstances make us.”

Emile Coué

Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion

“Things are not for us what they are, but what they seem.”

Emile Coué

Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion

“All the forces of the universe cooperate with vision toward beatific ideals.”

Emma Curtis Hopkins

High Mysticism

“Keep your eye on the Eternal and your intellect will grow.”

Emma Curtis Hopkins

High Mysticism

“The mind is not capable of bringing anything to pass except it be transfixed by inward visioning.”

Emma Curtis Hopkins

High Mysticism

“Metaphysicians, in tracing the cause of evil conditions, have all agreed that fear of evil is the only evil.”

Emma Curtis Hopkins

Scientific Christian Mental Practice

“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.”

Ernest Holmes

The Science of Mind

“Thoughts of lack manifest as limitation. Thoughts of abundance manifest as success and happiness.”

Ernest Holmes

The Science of Mind

“All the power of the universe is with you. Feel it, know it, and then act as though it were true.”

Ernest Holmes

The Science of Mind

“Whatever the mind holds to and firmly believes in forms a new pattern of thought within its creative mold.”

Ernest Holmes

The Science of Mind

“Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.”

Florence Scovel Shinn

The Game of Life and How to Play It

“The imagination has been called 'the scissors of the mind,' and it is ever cutting, cutting, day by day, the pictures man sees there.”

Florence Scovel Shinn

The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Everyone visualizes whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success.”

Genevieve Behrend

Your Invisible Power

“We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.”

Genevieve Behrend

Your Invisible Power

“The power within you which enables you to form a thought-picture is the starting point of all there is.”

Genevieve Behrend

Your Invisible Power

“In visualizing, or making a mental picture, you are not endeavoring to change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them.”

Genevieve Behrend

Your Invisible Power

“The world is what we make it.”

Horatio W. Dresser

The Power of Silence

“A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.”

James Allen

As a Man Thinketh1903

“Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits.”

James Allen

As a Man Thinketh

“Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself.”

James Allen

As a Man Thinketh

“The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.”

James Allen

As a Man Thinketh

“Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”

James Allen

As a Man Thinketh

“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.”

James Allen

As a Man Thinketh

“You are what you believe you are.”

Joseph S. Benner

The Impersonal Life

“To think is to create.”

Joseph S. Benner

The Impersonal Life

“For I AM not your human mind, nor its child, the intellect; they are but the expression of your Being, as you are the expression of My Being.”

Joseph S. Benner

The Impersonal Life

“There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter.”

Mary Baker Eddy

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

“Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.”

Mary Baker Eddy

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

“Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.”

Mary Baker Eddy

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

“An assumption, though false, if persisted in will harden into fact.”

Neville Goddard

The Power of Awareness1944

“Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live.”

Neville Goddard

Your Faith Is Your Fortune

“He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.”

Orison Swett Marden

He Can Who Thinks He Can, and Other Papers on Success in Life

“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.”

Orison Swett Marden

Pushing to the Front

“Science is wisdom reduced to practice.”

Phineas P. Quimby

The Quimby Manuscripts

“Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true.”

Phineas P. Quimby

The Quimby Manuscripts

“The great central fact of the universe is that Spirit of Infinite Life and Power that is back of all, that animates all, that manifests itself in and through all.”

Ralph Waldo Trine

In Tune with the Infinite

“Every condition, every experience of life is the result of our mental attitude.”

Robert Collier

The Secret of the Ages

“The one most important province of your conscious mind is to center your thoughts on the thing you want, and to shut the door on every suggestion of fear or worry or disease.”

Robert Collier

The Secret of the Ages

“Your mind is master of your body.”

Robert Collier

The Secret of the Ages

“It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it.”

Thomas Troward

The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science

“The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.”

Thomas Troward

The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science

“Any anxious thought as to the means to be employed in the accomplishment of our purposes is quite unnecessary. If the end is already secured, then it follows that all the steps leading to it are secured also.”

Thomas Troward

The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science

“You will learn that there is only one mover in all creation, and that mover is thought.”

U.S. Andersen

Three Magic Words

“We can shape the outer world by shaping our inner thoughts.”

U.S. Andersen

Three Magic Words

“To think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regardless of appearances.”

Wallace D. Wattles

The Science of Getting Rich

“By thought you can cause the gold in the hearts of the mountains to be impelled toward you.”

Wallace D. Wattles

The Science of Getting Rich

“Every efficient act is a success in itself, and if every act of your life is an efficient one, your whole life MUST be a success.”

Wallace D. Wattles

The Science of Getting Rich

“Every abnormal mental state ultimates itself in a correspondent bodily condition.”

Warren Felt Evans

The Mental Cure

“All our mental states are contagious.”

Warren Felt Evans

The Mental Cure

“Mind is a manifestation of force entirely distinct from that we call matter.”

Warren Felt Evans

The Mental Cure

“The fundamental idea of mental disease is a loss of balance between the intellectual and affectional departments of the mind.”

Warren Felt Evans

The Mental Cure

“When we come to see that Thought is a Force—a manifestation of energy—having a magnet-like power of attraction, we will begin to understand the why and wherefore of many things that have heretofore seemed dark to us.”

William Walker Atkinson

Thought Vibration, or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World

“When we think we send out vibrations of a fine ethereal substance, which are as real as the vibrations manifesting light, heat, electricity, magnetism.”

William Walker Atkinson

Thought Vibration, or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World

“Worry is the child of Fear—if you kill out Fear, Worry will die for want of nourishment.”

William Walker Atkinson

Thought Vibration, or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World

“Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”

Brian Tracy

Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want

“There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”

Brian Tracy

The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success

“We usually get what we anticipate.”

Claude M. Bristol

The Magic of Believing

“Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.”

Claude M. Bristol

The Magic of Believing

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”

Dale Carnegie

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion.”

Dale Carnegie

How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it.”

David J. Schwartz

The Magic of Thinking Big

“Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking.”

David J. Schwartz

The Magic of Thinking Big

“How you think determines how you act. How you act, in turn, determines how others react to you.”

David J. Schwartz

The Magic of Thinking Big

“Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.”

David J. Schwartz

The Magic of Thinking Big

“We become what we think about.”

Earl Nightingale

The Strangest Secret1956

“Man is not in the world to set it right, but to see it rightly.”

Eric Butterworth

Discover the Power Within You

“Your mind is your kingdom, and there you are ruler.”

Jack E. Addington

The Perfect Power Within You

“Change your thoughts and you change your destiny.”

Joseph Murphy

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.”

Maxwell Maltz

Psycho-Cybernetics

“Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.”

Maxwell Maltz

Psycho-Cybernetics

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich1937

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”

Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities!”

Norman Vincent Peale

The Power of Positive Thinking

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

Norman Vincent Peale

The Power of Positive Thinking1952

“The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much.”

Norman Vincent Peale

The Power of Positive Thinking

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”

Norman Vincent Peale

The Power of Positive Thinking

“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.”

Norman Vincent Peale

The Power of Positive Thinking

“I will greet this day with love in my heart.”

Og Mandino

The Greatest Salesman in the World

“I will form good habits and become their slave.”

Og Mandino

The Greatest Salesman in the World

“I am nature's greatest miracle.”

Og Mandino

The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.”

Og Mandino

The Greatest Salesman in the World

“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.”

Richard Bach

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.”

Richard Bach

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly.”

Shakti Gawain

Creative Visualization

“When we create something, we always create it first in thought form. A thought or idea always precedes manifestation.”

Shakti Gawain

Creative Visualization

“Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.”

Thaddeus Golas

The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

“Big doors swing on little hinges.”

W. Clement Stone

Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude

“To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.”

W. Clement Stone

Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude

“You'll see it when you believe it.”

Wayne Dyer

You'll See It When You Believe It

“You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.”

Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top

“The purpose of learning isn't to affirm our beliefs; it's to evolve our beliefs.”

Adam Grant

Think Again

“Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life.”

Bruce Lipton

The Biology of Belief

“When we truly recognize that our beliefs are that powerful, we hold the key to freedom.”

Bruce Lipton

The Biology of Belief

“You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately fifty trillion single-celled citizens.”

Bruce Lipton

The Biology of Belief

“Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.”

Cal Newport

Deep Work

“Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.”

Cal Newport

Deep Work

“The ability to concentrate intensely is a skill that must be trained.”

Cal Newport

Deep Work

“Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task.”

Cal Newport

Deep Work

“In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail—or if you're not the best—it's all been wasted.”

Carol Dweck

Mindset

“Don't make assumptions.”

Don Miguel Ruiz

The Four Agreements

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”

Eckhart Tolle

The Power of Now

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”

Eckhart Tolle

The Power of Now

“There is no shortage. There is no lack. There is no competition for resources.”

Esther Hicks

Ask and It Is Given

“Your desires and your beliefs must be a vibrational match in order for you to receive that which you desire.”

Esther Hicks

Ask and It Is Given

“A cluttered environment can cause a cluttered point of attraction.”

Esther Hicks

Ask and It Is Given

“Remember: if we were happy and complete, we wouldn't judge.”

Gabby Bernstein

Judgment Detox

“I am responsible for what I see.”

Gabby Bernstein

May Cause Miracles

“Perception is a mirror, not a fact.”

Gabby Bernstein

Spirit Junkie

“There can only be one solution to any problem: a change in attitude and in consciousness.”

Gregg Braden

The Divine Matrix

“Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present.”

Gregg Braden

The Isaiah Effect

“We are never more than a belief away from our greatest love, deepest healing, and most profound miracles.”

Gregg Braden

The Spontaneous Healing of Belief

“A memory without the emotional charge is called wisdom.”

Joe Dispenza

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

“Your outer world is a reflection of your inner reality.”

Joe Dispenza

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

“We have a natural ability to change the brain and body by thought alone, so that it looks biologically like some future event has already happened.”

Joe Dispenza

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

“When you think from your past memories, you can only create past experiences.”

Joe Dispenza

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

“When we truly change our state of being, our bodies can respond to a new mind.”

Joe Dispenza

You Are the Placebo

“No matter what is happening in your life, no matter what you think will happen, it can be another way.”

Joe Vitale

The Attractor Factor

“Beliefs are not some special category of idea sitting at a higher station of truth than our ordinary, everyday mortal thoughts.”

John Assaraf

The Answer

“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Wherever You Go, There You Are

“It helps to have a focus for your attention, an anchor line to tether you to the present moment and to guide you back when the mind wanders.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Wherever You Go, There You Are

“The ultimate metaphysical secret is that there are no boundaries in the universe.”

Ken Wilber

No Boundary

“Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself.”

Ken Wilber

No Boundary

“I have one major rule: Everybody is right.”

Ken Wilber

The Simple Feeling of Being

“Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”

Les Brown

Live Your Dreams

“It is possible for me to live my dreams.”

Les Brown

Live Your Dreams

“Life is really simple. What we give out, we get back.”

Louise Hay

You Can Heal Your Life1984

“Every thought we think is creating our future.”

Louise Hay

You Can Heal Your Life

“At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge.”

Lynne McTaggart

The Field

“A single collective directed thought is all it takes to change the world.”

Lynne McTaggart

The Intention Experiment

“Our greatest weakness is the weakness of an undisciplined mind.”

Marianne Williamson

Everyday Grace

“In order to change ourselves, we must first believe we can.”

Marie Forleo

Everything Is Figureoutable

“It's never about the lack of money or time or anything else. It's about your internal game.”

Marie Forleo

Everything Is Figureoutable

“All beliefs are a choice and choices can be changed.”

Marie Forleo

Everything Is Figureoutable

“When our thoughts look real, we live in a world of suffering. When they look subjective, we live in a world of choice.”

Michael Neill

The Inside-Out Revolution

“We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.”

Michael Neill

The Space Within

“The most important choice you make is what you choose to make important.”

Michael Neill

You Can Have What You Want

“If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.”

Michael Neill

You Can Have What You Want

“There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind—you are the one who hears it.”

Michael Singer

The Untethered Soul

“Do not let anything that happens in life be important enough that you're willing to close your heart over it.”

Michael Singer

The Untethered Soul

“Eventually you will see that the real cause of a problem is not life itself. It's the commotion the mind makes about life that really causes the problems.”

Michael Singer

The Untethered Soul

“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times. The best moments usually occur if a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen rather than something that happens to us.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work it is dissipated.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“When you don't know what to do, best advice is to do nothing until clarity comes.”

Oprah Winfrey

What I Know For Sure

“You become what you think about most. But you also attract what you think about most.”

Rhonda Byrne

The Secret

“Your thoughts become things!”

Rhonda Byrne

The Secret

“Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.”

Rhonda Byrne

The Secret

“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”

Robin Sharma

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

“The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.”

Robin Sharma

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

“Our brains are literally hardwired to perform at their best not when they are negative or even neutral, but when they are positive.”

Shawn Achor

The Happiness Advantage

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”

Stephen R. Covey

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

Stephen R. Covey

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”

Tim Ferriss

The 4-Hour Workweek

“We've progressed as human beings in terms of our physical evolution, but not so much in terms of our mental progression.”

Vishen Lakhiani

The Code of the Extraordinary Mind

“If you can accept any model of reality, why not choose one that suggests that you can literally bend reality with your mind?”

Vishen Lakhiani

The Code of the Extraordinary Mind

“Brules are bullshit rules that we adopt to simplify our understanding of the world.”

Vishen Lakhiani

The Code of the Extraordinary Mind

“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits.”

Aristotle

Nicomachean Ethics, Book I (trans. W.D. Ross)

“Virtue is a state of character concerned with choice, lying in a mean relative to us, this being determined by reason.”

Aristotle

Nicomachean Ethics, Book II

“Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools.”

Aristotle

Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.”

Buddha

Dhammapada (trans. Thomas Byrom)

“By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one purified. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.”

Buddha

Dhammapada, Ch. 12, v. 165 (trans. Acharya Buddharakkhita)

“Not to do any evil, to cultivate good, to purify one's mind: this is the teaching of the Buddhas.”

Buddha

Dhammapada, Ch. 14, v. 183 (trans. Acharya Buddharakkhita)

“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”

Buddha

Dhammapada, Ch. 8, v. 100 (trans. Thomas Byrom)

“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book II, Ch. 15 (trans. James Legge)

“The mind of the superior man is conversant with righteousness; the mind of the mean man is conversant with gain.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book IV, Ch. 16 (trans. James Legge)

“When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book IV, Ch. 17 (trans. James Legge)

“When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book VII, Ch. 21 (trans. James Legge)

“Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life? Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book XV, Ch. 23 (trans. James Legge)

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”

Epictetus

Discourses

“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”

Epictetus

Enchiridion (The Handbook), Ch. 1

“Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.”

Epictetus

Enchiridion (The Handbook), Ch. 5 (trans. Elizabeth Carter)

“Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.”

Epicurus

Letter to Menoeceus

“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.”

Epicurus

Vatican Sayings, 68

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 33 (trans. Stephen Mitchell)

“Deal with the difficult while it is still easy; deal with the big while it is still small.”

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 63 (trans. Stephen Mitchell)

“The stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.”

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 76 (trans. Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English)

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 11.18

“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 12.17

“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 2.11 (trans. Gregory Hays)

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 7.67

“Confine yourself to the present.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 8.36

“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”

Rumi

The Essential Rumi (Coleman Barks interpretation, not a literal translation)

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

Rumi

The Essential Rumi, from the Masnavi (Coleman Barks interpretation, not a literal translation)

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

Seneca

Letters from a Stoic (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter 13

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

Seneca

Letters from a Stoic, Letter 1 (trans. Robin Campbell)

“No man was ever wise by chance.”

Seneca

Letters from a Stoic, Letter 76

“The best cure for anger is delay.”

Seneca

On Anger (De Ira)

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

Seneca

On the Shortness of Life, Ch. 1

“It's never them; it's always you.”

Matthew Ferry

Calm, Clarity, and Confidence

“If you are going to make things up, why not make things up that feel good?”

Matthew Ferry

Calm, Clarity, and Confidence

“Opinions are the source of suffering.”

Matthew Ferry

Calm, Clarity, and Confidence

“Failure is just learning. It's just a perspective. Failure is the first part of learning and the process you go through to figure things out.”

Matthew Ferry

Quiet Mind Epic Life

“When your mind is free from the distractions created by resistance, you are free to create your dream life.”

Matthew Ferry

Quiet Mind Epic Life