Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

Moving and motion tends to make things pop up. But things pop up for me, really, at just odd intervals or at random times that aren't really convenient, so I'm a big fan of the voice memo recorder on my phone. That's the only way I can remember things.

from natural selection's point of view, feelings would make great labels for thoughts, labels that say things like "high priority," "medium priority," "low priority.

Two types of voices command your attention today. Negative ones fill your mind with doubt, bitterness, and fear. Positive ones purvey hope and strength. Which one will you choose to heed?

Don't allow negative people to steal your joy. When you lose your joy, you lose your strength.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.