Agnes Martin Quotes

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

If you try to be better every day, more miracles happen in your life.

Run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.

I am growing and learning. There's so much more that I want to accomplish and do. I'm gonna do it at whatever pace it happens. I'm not trying to rush anything or slow anything down.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.

I would say I'm quite happy in my life the majority of the time. Earlier in my life I was more questioning, overly trying to figure things out. I like this way much better.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

New Year's Resolutions come and go. Some we keep, some we don't. In order to make lasting changes in our lives, we must first change our minds. We sometimes forget, and we often feel stuck, but we all have the power to do so.

When you have the right habits, okay, certain good things will come to you, and that's what life is about.

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

There is no way to reach your fullest potential if you don't really find the love of yourself.

I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.