Think something isn't good enough, and it never will be. Think something is wonderful, and it will only get better.

No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen. This gives us vision, which gives us conviction, which gives us power.

We're not being stopped by something on the outside, but by something on the inside.

Think honestly what you have thought that God would not have thought, and what you have not thought that God would have you think.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

I think the first thing to do is to be aware that you can choose what you're thinking about and that your life is going down the path that you're thinking.

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.

When the Bible uses the term heart, it means the causal core of your personhood. The heart is your directional system. The heart is your steering wheel. Your behavior isn't caused by the situations and relationships outside of you. This passage teaches that your experiences influence, but do not determine, your behavior. Your behavior is shaped and caused by how your heart reacts to and interacts with the situations and relationships that are outside of you.

Men are changed in accordance with what they contemplate.

The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.