While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.

What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.

Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Nothing adventured, nothing attained.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert'... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that’s true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

What's more important - your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough but its a small price to pay for living a dream

To the degree were not living our dreams our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

Our thoughts create our reality where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without?mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge -- and follow its advice -- the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.

Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all those unforgiven, unforgotten past events. Let them go.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.