Echoes

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.

It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

Man is what he believes.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Nor less I deem that there are Powers / Which of themselves our minds impress; / That we can feed this mind of ours / In a wise passiveness.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Against that positivism which stops before phenomena, saying "there are only facts," I should say: no, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations...