Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.

Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.

Success is based on your perspective.

In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.

Everything really is beautiful if you choose to see it that way.

It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.

Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash. (Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)

The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.

Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.

The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.