A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Earl NightingaleRead
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
Interpretation
Our thoughts and mindset shape our reality and experiences.
This quote emphasizes the profound connection between our mental processes and the world we experience. It suggests that our inner thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes directly influence the outer reality we perceive, implying that personal responsibility and self-awareness are crucial in shaping a fulfilling life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
If the grass is greener on the other side it`s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else.
Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become. It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.
The world is God's language to us.
Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.
Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.
But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.
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