Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never

produce good
results

Low expectations make for pleasant surprises.

Your emotions follow your thoughts

just as surely as baby ducks follow their mother. But the fact that

the baby ducks follow faithfully along doesnt prove that the mother

knows where she is going. Emotions are almost the last thing we

should trust, because feelings are not facts.

It is immune to criticism, it is unfearful of any challenge, and it feels

beneath no one. And yet, it is also humble and feels superior to no one,

because it recognizes that everyone else is the same Self, the same

spirit in different guises.

that dreams have a price,

but, as Coelho has noted in interviews, not living your dreams also has

a price.4

(you do not define people with your judgments,

your judgments define you

circumstances do not make us, they reveal us

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten,

either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

questionWhat good

shall I do this day?and an evening questionWhat good have I

done today?

Anyone can become angrythat is easy. But to be angry with the right

person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and

in the right waythis is not easy.

They could use their emotions instead of letting their emotions use

them.

If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about

their own childhoods; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn

where their fears and rigid patterns come from.

We are a story, not a result

Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an

unhabitual way.

Some in the business world say that the more power a boss has, the

less they should use.

We teach people how to treat us.

An idea or a thought alone

may excite the rational, conscious mind, but the subconscious likes

things to be emotionalized. When a thought becomes a feeling, and

imagination becomes desire, it will deliver what you want with speed

and abundance.

Faith is the one power against which fear cannot stand. Day by day,

as you fill your mind with faith, there will ultimately be no room left for

fear. This is the one great fact that no one should forget. Master faith

and you will automatically master fear.

Consistent with most of the self-help classics, it says that the highest

morality is fulfillment of potential; to give up is to deny yourself all

the spiritual and material rewards that are rightfully yours.

Appreciate also that leaders are readersreading allows

us to make crucial distinctions based on others experience.

Make decisions rather than wishes about what you are and take action.

Rather than having an

inborn trait of greatness, such people have developed a way of explaining

events that does not see defeat as permanent or affecting their basic

values.

It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit,

so much as purposenot merely the power to achieve, but the

will to labour energetically and perseveringly. Hence energy of will

may be defined to be the very central power of character in a manin

a word, it is the Man himself.

Sir Humphry Davy: What I am I have made myself: I

say this without vanity, and in pure simplicity of heart.