Augusten Burroughs Quotes

One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.

If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make.

Freedom and happiness come from understanding - and working with - our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with your purpose. Do not seek external approval. Do not worry about anything outside of your control. The only things you command are your thoughts and actions. We choose our response. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

Happiness is a choice. Choose to be happy.

Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.

I say 'Out' to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

Happiness is your choice. You can choose today.

Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.

Rich people believe 'I create my life.' Poor people believe 'Life happens to me.'

It is time to stop looking outside yourself for the answers to why you haven't created the life and results you want, for it is you who creates the quality of life you lead and the results you produce. You-no one else! To achieve major success in life-to achieve those things that are most important to you-you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

As long as you have a set of beliefs or lack of skills that make you feel you have at the effect of life, you're going to have enormous stress and the quality of your life will go down.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And - this is key - labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you'll experience it as such.

You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.

I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.

I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.

I'm a fighter and not a victim. Think of yourself and make the most of life.

A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.