You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering. . . I have always been a strong libertarian both inside the Labour Party and outside. . . what I want to seek to do over a period of course is to establish a Socialist society.
Fear is an effective factor in altering behavior.
The eye altering, alters all.
Advanced Buddhist Yoga is the art of altering your karmic patterns.
For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature
By altering our attitudes we can alter our lives.
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
. . . but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.
There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors.
Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring it closer to ourselves without altering it, "like a bird caught with a limestick. " But the reality is, every truth we manage to know is altered, deformed by our very "encheiresis naturae," by the act of our taking-in-hand of nature (to borrow the alchemists' phrase from Goethe's Faust).
Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable.
Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest.
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.
This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.
Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.
