The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Pragmatism asks its usual question. “Grant an idea or belief to be true,” it says, “what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences...

Now, my dear little girl, you have come to an age when the inward life develops and when some people (and on the whole those who have most of a destiny) find that all is...

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is...

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

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.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call ‘something there,’ more deep and more general than any...

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves...

Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refusing to believe, that a certain thing is, is continuing to act as if it...

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness...

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be...

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease

Our faith is faith in some one else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. Our belief in truth itself, for instance, that there is a truth, and that our minds...

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as...

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Truth is what works.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction

Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off...

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and...

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true. The whole...

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.