The truth is you can, over time, learn to choose only uplifting, inspiring, motivational, and empowering thoughts. It is simply a habit that—with intention and discipline—can be developed.

Everything you experience in life—both internally and externally—is the result of how you have responded to a previous event.

And belief is a choice. It is simply a thought you choose to think over and over until it becomes automatic.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

A man is literally what he thinks

You are the thinker of your thoughts and as such you are the maker of yourself and condition. Thought is causal and creative, and appears in your character and life in the form of results. There are no accidents in your life. Both its harmonies and antagonisms are the responsive chords of your thoughts. A man thinks, and his life appears.

Mind is the master-power that moulds and makes.

As a man purifies his heart, temptation ceases, for when a certain unlawful desire has been taken out of the heart, the object which formerly appealed to it can no longer do so, but becomes dead and powerless, for there is nothing left in the heart that can respond to it.

This life of supreme blessedness is an end, and the pilgrim who is striving towards it, the prodigal returning to it, must travel thither, and employ means to get there. He must pass through the country of his animal desires, disentangling himself from their intricacies, simplifying them, overcoming them; this is the way, and he has no enemies but what spring within himself.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.