Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. (Richard Cecil, American Poet)

What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am; or how wrong I am; or how inadequate I am; if I concentrate on what I can't do; and how there's not enough time in which to do it - isn't that what I get every time? And when I think about how powerful I am; and when I think about what I have to contribute; and when I think about the difference I can make on this planet - then that's what I get. You see, I recognize that it's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it. (W. Mitchell, American Businessman Mayor Speaker)

Focus is the "hocus pocus" of reality creation. (Dean Fraser)

Fake it till you make it. (Unknown)

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious mind grows into your experience. (Brian Tracy, American Trainer Speaker Author Businessman)

You cannot know who you truly are, because you are so much more vast and complex than the analytical mind can understand. However, in your soul and spirit you can feel the connection... but if you try to analyze it, you will lose the feeling because the mind has no basis for analyzing a spiritual awareness. It is trust; it is knowing; it is being; it is setting intent... when you are able to connect with that feeling of soul and spirit, you begin to transform any perceived pain of the experience you chose. In this way, you are not limiting your power, but rather you are becoming more aware of who you are and the consciousness of your creative ability.

If you do not trust and recognize your true creative power, then you will have fear... it is a trusting; it is an allowing; it is a knowing; it is the next time you are upset about something, a choosing to detach from the ego that desires to be in control and instead shifting to your higher power of awareness. (Salem through Diandra) - www.inwardjourney.com (Source: Sedona Journal of Emergence June 2004) - www.sedonajournal.com

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place. (Gita Bellin)

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. (George W. Crane)

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation. (James Allen, 1864-1912 British-born American Essayist Author of As a Man Thinketh)

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. (Florence Scovel Shinn, American Artist Metaphysics Teacher Author)

Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger. (Christian D. Larsen)

By appreciation, we make the excellence in others our own property. (Voltaire, 1694-1778 French Historian Writer)

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth. (Sarah Ban Breathnach) - www.simpleabundance.com

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. (Antonio Gramsci, 1891-1937 Italian Political Theorist)

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. (Christiane Northrup, American Medical Doctor)

Where the focus goes, there the energy flows. (Unknown)

If a person's life focus is upon 3D problems, the problems will seem to GROW IN SIZE, in some cases to the tenth power! If our focus is upon joy or bliss, the bliss will seem heavenly and vast. All of this, it seems, is a training exercise for souls who have already determined to make their journey through 4D and beyond. (The Reconnections through Daniel Jacob) - www.reconnections.net

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 American Poet Essayist)

Live LOVE. This means you live from an open heart. You live from a state of vulnerability. This does not mean you let others walk all over you, nor does it mean you are weak and giving your power away. No, this means you live in the knowing that life is special, that the universe supports you and that Source will take care of you. Relax into the awareness that all life is there for your goodwill! This means a release from the old mindsets that have given you any other thought or experience. This means living in unconditional love – a higher state and more all encompassing state than personal love! You can claim this now by simply letting go of the "separation mindset". Call to the universe for help. She will give it immediately. This is your destiny – what YOU came to bring onto the earth.

Live BEAUTY. Open your eyes. Look around you! Even in the state of the earth as you have perceived her in less than her perfection she is still more beautiful than any of you can imagine… "STOP TO SMELL THE ROSES". Every time you stand in release, fullness and open gratitude for what you see and feel, healing takes place! All healing is simply the return of distortion to a corrected state of wholeness – truly there is no such thing as dis-ease other than thinking and the experience of "stinkin thinkin" makes it so!

Live TRUST. Open, open, open! Allow, allow, allow! You are a child of the most high and in seeing yourself as such, you will let go and be it naturally. You will then know you are loved - you can stop searching for the love from others and just let it in - you will then know you are cared for, and you can stop working so hard to make your life happen in the manner you think it needs to be done, allowing yourself to evolve naturally and not working at "making life happen". You will become aware that all flows and becomes exactly what you have been desiring since your beginning of awareness and your participation in the process of existence! (Amaterasu through Chrystyanna) - www.communication-house.com/ch-qa.htm

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. (John Homer Miller)

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never ever think a negative thought again. (Peace Pilgrim, 1908-1981 American Peace Activist)

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. (A Course In Miracles, Course on Forgiveness Based on Christianity Eastern Philosophy)

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust)

The beauty seen, partially exists in him who sees it. (Christian Nevell Bovee, 1820-1904 American Author Lawyer)

One's success is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things. (Henry Miller, 1891-1980 American Author)

The continuous invention of new ways of appreciatively observing, is man's special secret of living. (J. Z. Young)

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. (W. Clement Stone, 1902 American Businessman Author)

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. (Earl Nightingale, 1921-1989 American Radio Announcer Author Motivator Speaker)

If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them. (Unknown)

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are. (Les Brown, 1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer)

Life's a mind defined reality. (Dean Fraser)

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside your mind. (Wayne Dyer, 1940 American Psychotherapist Author Lecturer)

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty; that is the test of living. (Joseph Fort Newton)

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all. (Unknown)

The only way to replace bad habits is with good habits. (Dean Fraser)

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace during that day. (Charles Swindoll, American Pastor Author)

It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. (Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955 American Poet)