Thought is not reality; yet it is through Thought that our realities are created.

- Sydney Banks

If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.

- Sydney Banks

Life is like any other contact sport. You may encounter hardships of one sort or another. Wise people find happiness not in the absence of such hards…

- Sydney Banks

Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

- Sydney Banks

Life is like any other contact sport; you’re gonna get your knocks. But it’s not the knocks that count, it’s how you handle them. If you handle them …

- Sydney Banks

All feelings derive and become alive, whether negative or positive, from the power of Thought

- Sydney Banks

And in this game of life, we all search for ourselves. When I say selves, I mean ‘inner selves’, the thing that created the life in the first place. …

- Sydney Banks

If we can forgive everyone, regardless of what he or she may have done, we nourish the soul and allow our whole being to feel good. To hold a grudge…

- Sydney Banks

Someone once said to me, 'Are you telling me that chair isn't real, that it's only thought?' I said 'Of course the chair is real. But it comes to you…

- Sydney Banks