“Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.”

Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Unlock your natural drives by doing what you enjoy.

Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

To be totally without stress is to be dead.

Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.

Stress is the spice of life.

The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.

Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body’s resistance.

My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.

We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.

Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.

Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.

They hit like waves, the memories of those old summer days. Memories you’d have thought to erase, but they crash ashore without haste.

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.