Everybody thinks I'm the weirdo in the family.
The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy. . . is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
The time will come when the work of the physician will not be to treat and attempt to heal the body, but to heal the mind, which in turn will heal the body. The true physician will be a teacher; his or her work will be to keep people well, instead of trying to heal them after sickness.
The word heaven means harmony. The word hell is from the old English hell, meaning to build a wall around, to separate; to be helled was to be shut off from. Now if there is such a thing as harmony there must be that something one can be in right relations with; for to be in right relations with anything is to be in harmony with it. Again, if there is such a thing as being helled, shut off, separated from, there must be that something from which one is held, shut off, or separated.
Have you ever fully realized that life is, after all, merely a series of habits, and that it lies entirely within one's own power to determine just what that series shall be?
It was a sad thing. I don't know how he learned that.
Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.
Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.
The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.