One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!

There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.

Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.

Life is more fun if you play games.

no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.

See yourself through your mind’s eye being who you want to be, having what you want to have, and doing what you want to do.

Blood and wine are interchangeable. Love and hate are unrecognizable. Sanity is no longer with me.

What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

Be great. Get thy "Self". Know who you are. Beyond this body, and being. You are more than what you're seeing.

A son of the Immaculate Heart of Mary...is a man who unceasingly expends himself to light the fire of divine love in the world. Nothing stops him.

An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.

Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt.

I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing.