Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

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.

Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.

A thought will color a world for us.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

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

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.

You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.

My stepdad always said, "If you're going to believe the good, you're going to believe the bad." I think that's really important.

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

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

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

Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

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

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

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

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.