Great Throughts Treasury

"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us."

"Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life."

"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal."

"We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile."

"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."

"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality."

"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."

"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. "

"The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts. "

"We tend to live up to our expectations. "

"Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind. "

"Everything begins with an idea. "

"It’s hard to stress enough, the real importance of developing interests which will keep us from being lonely. I believe that loneliness is the thing most people dread more than anything else in the world and decided to poke around in my library to see who, among my authors, was an expert on this business of loneliness. I believe I came up with a winner. A lot of writers have been experts on loneliness . . . Thomas Mann . . . lots of them, but, in my opinion, the world’s champion was Edgar Allan Poe."