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Changing yourself is all you really have control over

• If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control.  Stephen Covey
• Most people spend so much time and energy trying to do the impossible—namely, to change and control the actions of others—that they wrongly believe that they cannot achieve a quite possible goal—to change their own thoughts and acts. Robert A. Harper
• Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves. Mahatma Gandhi
• The starting place for change is accepting oneself and taking interest in one’s inner world. Edward L. Deci
• There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. Aldous Huxley
• We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us. Stephen Covey
• You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. Jim Rohn
• Life is a mirror,  Projection,  Perception,  Attitude,  Interpretation,  Change

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To change your world, you must first change yourself

• All appears to change when we change. Henri-Frédéric Amiel
• Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now. Gary Zukav
• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
• I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. Aldous Huxley
• If we can transform ourselves, we have the potential to change the world. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
• If we want to change the society, we have to change the individual. Osho
• Let him that would move the world, first move himself. Socrates
• Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves. James Allen
• The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands. Robert M. Persig
• Things do not change, we change. Henry David Thoreau
• To change what you get you must change who you are. Vernon Howard
• To straighten the crooked you must first do the harder thing–straighten yourself. You are the only master. Who else? Subdue yourself and discover your master. Buddha
• We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become. David R. Hawkins
• What you are the world is. And without your transformation there can be no transformation of the world. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. Viktor Frankl
• Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi
• You can change environments, but until you change yourself, nothing else will ever change. Eric Thomas
• You don’t need to change the world; you need to change yourself. Miguel Ruiz
• You fix your life, and your business, and your world by fixing yourself. Geshe Michael Roach
• You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person. Scott Sorrell
• Change,  Transformation,  Transcendence

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To change your outer world, you must first change your inner world …

• Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Eckhart Tolle
• If we want to change the world, it must first come from healing the discord within our own souls. Will Bowen
• If you want to change external circumstances in your life, you must change your inner world first. Christin Sander
• It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself. Vernon Howard
• The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands. Robert M. Pirsig
• The starting place for change is accepting oneself and taking interest in one’s inner world. Edward L. Deci
• Turn your gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change. Kristin Zambucka
• What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Otto Rank
• Your outer circumstances are the mirror of your inner world. Change your inner world, and you change your outer world. Remez Sasson
• Your outer world reflects your inner world. You are destined to experience what you think about and your world reflects this to you every day. If you want to change external circumstances in your life, you must change your inner world first. Christin Sander

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… including your inner beliefs, motivations, thoughts and attitudes …

• Often we seek to grow or change ourselves by adjusting the external aspects of our lives. … We all too often forget that permanent or real change only comes when the center of our being, our inner drives ad motivations, undergoes transformation. Errol Strider
• I change the world by changing myself. I am changing the world by loving myself, by enjoying life, by making my personal world a dream of heaven. I change myself, and just like magic, other people start to change. Don Miguel Ruiz
• If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place. Lao Tzu
• The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive … and begin to act accordingly. Shakti Gawain
• The within is ceaselessly becoming the without. From the state of a man’s heart proceed the conditions of his life; his thoughts blossom into deeds, and his deeds bear the fruitage of character and destiny. James Allen
• When we change our daily lives – the way we think, speak and act – we change the world. Thich Nhat Hanh
• When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves, we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. Shunryu Suzuki
• Belief,  Thinking,  Attitude

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… for outer changes always start with changes within

• If we want all the joys of outward success, first we must master ourselves. Let the public acclaim flow out of our own self- mastery. Michael Gelb
• Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude. Albert Einstein
• Private victories precede public victories. You can’t invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. Stephen Covey
• Synchronicity holds the promise that if we want to change inside, the patterns of our external life will change as well. Jean Shinoda Bolen
• The “Inside-Out” approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside- out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves. Stephen Covey
• What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Otto Rank
• Wolfgang von Goethe once wrote, ‘To have more, you must first be more.’ To achieve more in your outer world, you must go to work on your inner world, on developing yourself. There are no lasting shortcuts. There is no other way. Brian Tracy

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What you are within is what you’ll see without…

• A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it. Neale Donald Walsch
• Everything you see happening is the consequence of that which you are. David R. Hawkins
• He will find that as he alters his mind toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him. James Allen
• How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us. Parks Cousins
• I am not seeing things as they are… I am seeing things as I am. Laurel Lee
• I don’t see the world as it is. I see the world as I see myself.  Kevin Hall
• Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.  Wayne Dyer
• Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it. Steve Maraboli
• Peace in ourselves, peace in the world. Thich Nhat Hanh
• The world is as you are. David Lynch
• We do not see things the way they are. We see things the way we are. The Talmud
• We see people and things not as they are, but as we are. Anthony de Mello
• What we’re seeing “out there” is the projection of where we’re at–the projection of the clingings of our minds. Ram Dass
• What you have carried in your mind about the world is what you will see around the world. What you carry in your mind about your life is what you will see in your life. Neale Donald Walsch
• When you possess light within, you see it externally. Anaïs Nin
• You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That’s what all the mystics are saying. Anthony De Mello
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…because the world is a great mirror and reflects back to you what you are inside

• The entire universe is a great theater of mirrors. Alice Bailey
• The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are. Thomas Dreier
• The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion. William Makepeace Thackeray
• The world is only a mirror. You will only see in the world what you’re prepared to see in yourself– nothing more, nothing less. Robert Holden
• The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will benegative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results. Michael LeBeuf
• Your outer circumstances are the mirror of your inner world. Change your inner world, and you change your outer world. Remez Sasson
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The state of your life is nothing but a reflection of your inner state of mind …

• A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. Ken Keyes, Jr.
• Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are. Deepak Chopra
• Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. Ernest Holmes
• Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.
• Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. Earl Nightingale
• The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. Wayne Dyer
• The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story. Byron Katie
• The world that we perceive is a reflection of our own states of mind and reveals our own level of consciousness. The world is little more than a Rorschach blot in which we see our own desire systems projected. We see what we want to see. Prem Prakash
• The world we see merely reflects our own internal frame of reference – the dominant ideas, wishes and emotions in our minds. We look inside first, decide the kind of world we want to see and then project that world outside, making it the truth as we see it. We make it true by our interpretations of what it is we are seeing. A Course in Miracles

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… and your world is made up by the way you look at things

• Best keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you see the world. George Bernard Shaw
• How you perceive creates what you believe to be true. You see what you are looking for. Story Waters
• If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us. Daisaku Ikeda
• It’s not what you look at that matters… it’s what you see. Henry David Thoreau
• Love life and life will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein
• Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us. John Mitchell
• People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for. Harper Lee
• Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. A Course in Miracles
• The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them. Michel Eyquem de Michel de Montaigne
• The truth is, we see in life what we want to see. If you search for ugliness, you’ll find plenty of it. If you want to find fault with other people, your career, or the world in general, you’ll certainly be able to do so. But the opposite is also true. If you look for the extraordinary in the ordinary, you can train yourself to see it. Richard Carlson
• The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story. Byron Katie
• Things don’t change, only the way you look at them. Carlos Castaneda
• What we see depends mainly on what we look for. John Lubbock
• When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer
• To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. Stephen Covey
• Perception,  Thinking,  Interpretation

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To see the power of this, consider this analogy of a film projector

• Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. This hasn’t ever worked, because it approaches the problem backward. What The Work gives us is a way to change the projector—mind—rather than the projected. It’s like when there’s a piece of lint on a projector’s lens. We think there’s a flaw on the screen, and we try to change this person and that person, whomever the flaw appears on next. But it’s futile to try to change the projected images. Once we realize where the lint is, we can clear the lens itself. This is the end of suffering, and the beginning of a little joy in paradise. Byron Katie
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Instead of trying to change others, work on yourself

• Before healing others, heal thyself. Lao Tzu
• Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.  Jacob M. Braude
• Do not meddle with the personal habits and practices of others, though they are your nearest and dearest; these things are none of your business. Nothing can be wrong but your own personal attitude; make that right and you will know that all else is right. Wallace D. Wattles
• I’ve discovered that you can’t change people. They can change themselves. Jim Rohn
• The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself. Thomas Sprat
• The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself. Saint Peter of Alcantara
• To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else. The Dalai Lama
• To straighten the crooked you must first do the harder thing–straighten yourself. Buddha
• When you stop trying to change others and work on changing yourself, your world changes for the better.
• You can’t change other people. You can only change yourself. Celestine Chua
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To transform your life, grow from the inside out …

• As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter. Eckhart Tolle
• Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it! Ram Dass
• Greatness on the outside begins within. Robin Sharma
• The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life – mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical. Julius Erving
• The main business of living is individual growth, the seeking of the kingdom of heaven which is within. Let one take care of what has been given him—his thoughts, sensations, faculties, and he will be the best of all help to his fellow men. Ervin Seale
• You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. Swami Vivekananda
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… for your success on the outside is attracted by the person you become on the inside

• Before you can do something, you must first be somethingJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become. Jim Rohn
• The real power to shape and form our experience of the physical world lies in the domain of being, through the metaphysical domain that is composed of molecules of meaning that arise from the combining of our thoughts and feelings. Brad Swift
• We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become. David R. Hawkins
• We work to become, not to acquire. Elbert Hubbard
• Who will you have to become to achieve all you want? Tony Robbins
• You want to go big? You’ve gotta get big. James Arthur Ray
• Success,  The Law of Attraction

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Transform your life by being what you want to attract into your life

• All you have to do to have love is be love. Neale Donald Walsch
• Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If you’re friendly then everybody else seems to be friendly too. David R. Hawkins
• If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place. Gita Bellin
• If you want to change something without, change within. If you want a happy relationship, BE a person who generates positive energy. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. Stephen Covey
• In order to attract and maintain romantic and spiritual partnerships, you must be what it is that you’re seeking. That is, you always need to put forth what you want to attract. Wayne Dyer
• Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. James Allen
• The law of attraction is this: You don’t attract what you want. You attract what you are. Wayne Dyer
• We are free when we move from a focus on getting love, abundance, peace and freedom to being love, abundance, ease, and freedom. Brent Kessel
• Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. Eckhart Tolle
• You are what you seek. Robert Holden
• You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
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If you focus on being who you want to be, the outer doing will follow naturally

• Before we can begin to do, we must appreciate and refine who we are. Tom Butler-Bowdon
• Beingness leads to doingness. Neale Donald Walsch
• Conventionally, we approach life from the having and doing domains, rather than from the being domain. But true power can only arise in reversing this order, because it is in this direction that the universe flows. Brad Swift
• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus
• If you change first, your action will last. Arthur Tugman
• Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to make more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is in reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. Margaret Young
• That does not mean that “having” and “doing” will be eliminated from your life. It means that what you experience yourself having or doing will spring from your being – not lead you to it. Neale Donald Walsch
• The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow. Marianne Williamson
• The way to do… is to be. Lao Tzu
• To be is to do.  Voltaire
• We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do! JoyBell C.
• What we do flows from who we are. Paul Vitale
• Who we are being, including who we consider ourselves to be, always informs or determines what actions we see to take. Brad Swift
• You have to ‘Be’ before you can ‘Do’ and ‘Do’ before you can ‘Have’. Zig Ziglar
• Envision who you want to become,  Be clear on what you want

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Transform yourself by getting to know yourself inside out

• At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. Lao Tzu
• Average individuals often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are whereas self-actualizing individuals have superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general. Abraham Maslow
• I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself. Gary Zukav
• If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. Aristotle
• Remember, you cannot abandon what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must first know yourself. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world. Paulo Coelho
• When you become cognisant of why you behave the way you behave, then only can you manifest lasting change. Swami Sai Premananda
• Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
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Transform your life by mastering yourself

• Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind. Zen saying
• By the mind one is bound, by the mind one is freed. Ramakrishna
• He that would govern others, first should be The Master of himself. Philip Massinger
• He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche
• He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. Lao Tzu
• He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king. John Milton
• He who rules his spirit has won a greater victory than the taking of a city. Proverbs 16:32
• If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. Napoleon Hill
• Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tzu
• One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. Leonardo da Vinci
• One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand men on the battlefield. Buddha
• Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively. Peter Senge
• The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds. Edgar Cayce
• To be free is to be the master of ourselves. Matthieu Ricard
• When you rule your mind, you rule your world. Bill Provost
• Mastery,  Self-control

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Transform your life by developing a strong, positive, disciplined mind

• A strong, disciplined mind, which anyone can cultivate though daily practice, can achieve miracles. If you want to live life to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would your most prized possessions. Work hard to remove all inner turbulence. The rewards will be abundant. Robin Sharma
• As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking. James Allen
• Dozens of studies show that willpower is the single most important keystone habit for individual success. Charles Duhigg
• Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny. Gandhi
• More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm. Buddha
• Remember, either you control your mind or your mind controls you. Robin Sharma
• Weak minds lead to weak actions. A strong, disciplined mind, which anyone can cultivate though daily practice, can achieve miracles. If you want to live life to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would your most prized possessions. Work hard to remove all inner turbulence. The rewards will be abundant.  Robin Sharma
• You have now learned that the mind is like a fertile garden and for it to flourish, you must nurture it daily. Never let the weeds of impure thought and action take the garden of your mind. Stand guard at the gateway of your mind. Keep it healthy and strong—it will work miracles in your life if you will only let it. Robin Sharma
• Positivity,  Self-discipline

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Transform your life by changing your thoughts

• It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation. Marianne Williamson
• Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale
• What you thought before has led to every choice you have made, and this adds up to you at this moment. If you want to change who you are physically, mentally, and spiritually, you will have to change what you think. Patrick Gentempo
• If you change your thinking, you change your life. Brian Tracy
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Transform your life by changing your paradigms, perceptions and assumptions

• All of us think we see the world as it is; we see the world as we are. Stephen Covey
• If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant quantum changes, we need to work on our basic paradigms—the way we view ourselves and the world around us. Stephen Covey
• Our paradigms, correct or incorrect, are the sources of our attitudes and behaviors, and ultimately our relationships with others. Stephen Covey
• Paradigms are the mental images you have in your mind of the way things are which come from your background and experiences. Stephen Covey
• There is no reality, only perception. Strategy: Identify the filters through which you view the world.  Dr Phil McGraw
• Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves. Adrienne Rich
• We all see things in different ways. We all have different paradigms or frames of reference—like eyeglasses through which we see the world. We see the world not as it is, but as we are—or sometimes as we are conditioned to see it. The more we are aware of our basic paradigms, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experiences, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, change them if necessary, and listen to others and be open to their perceptions. Stephen Covey
• We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions. Stephen Covey
• What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything. Donna Quesada
• Perception,  Assumption

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Transform your life by changing your beliefs

• A man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. Bhagavad Gita
• The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, reality, to something more positive… and to begin to act accordingly. Shakti Gawain
• You are given the gift of God, you create your reality according to your beliefs. Yours is the creative energy that makes your world. Jane Roberts
• You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Your belief creates the fact. James Allen
• Your beliefs control what you see, what you believe and where you’re heading. If you don’t believe that you’re awesome, then you won’t accomplish awesome things. Henri Junttila
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Transform your life by changing your attitude

• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. Patricia Neal
• Happiness comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy. The Dalai Lama
• Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. Francesca Reigler
• It is our own mental attitude, which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. Swami Vivekananda
• The central method for achieving a happier life is to train your mind in a daily practice that weakens negative attitudes and strengthens positive ones. The Dalai Lama
• The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. William James
• There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. W. Clement Stone
• Attitude