Echoes

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

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

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

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

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

Man is what he believes.

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

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

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

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

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

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

Men at some time are masters of their fates:The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

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

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

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

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.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

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.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

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

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.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.