Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
There is 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.
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
I've got nothing to do today but smile.
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
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