Byron Katie Quotes

Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark spots as merely potential light.

I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.

I don't think the world objectively exists the way we think it exists. There's a constant sort of storytelling process.

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

I think perception is important.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Success is based on your perspective.

I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.

The world begins with what we believe.

Everything is but what we think it.

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

The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid , uninteresting, petty and chaotic.

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

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

Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world.

How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.