Daryn Kagan Quotes

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

Negativity doesn't help me.

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.

I have settled on just kind of what I always settle on: To keep getting better and try and affect people positively sometimes. Don't be so negative all the time.

I don't do anything out of negativity anymore.

I thought that if I was able to change myself, I would be more successful.

Everybody has positives and negatives. I just want to learn and keep getting better.

I always focus on the negatives.

I feel, that I'm only going to get better.

If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.

If we are to make life into a pleasure rather than a struggle, then I would suggest that we have to start with our own mental attitudes.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

I was never at my best when I was at my worst. When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.

People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.