Dan Chaon Quotes

My life is so much better than I thought it was going to be.

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Long ago made it a principle of my life to cultivate a positive frame of mind, to strive to project it and to share it with those I meet. It is a principle that has served me well.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

I think life is a learning lesson within itself. I think you should take the best out of everything that you see and that you encounter and make the best of it.

Think about all the good things of your life. Never think about your difficulties. Forget yourself, and concentrate on being of service as much as you can in this world, and then, having lost your lower self in a cause greater than yourself, you will find your higher self: your real self.

It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.

There are a lot of things that I'd do differently. But I can't imagine being more fortunate than I have been.

I am a much happier 27-year-old than I was at 20 years old. I am so fortunate because I have an amazing family, amazing friends and a great support system. I think at 27 it is much easier for me to look at life and appreciate what I have rather than stressing about the little things day to day.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

Your life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be enjoyed. You are doing better than you think.

Sometimes we're too focused on getting out of a situation that we don't think about what we can get out of the situation.

Since I learned the secret and started applying it to my life, my life has truly become magical. I think the kind of life that everybody dreams of is one I live on a day to day basis. I live in a four-and-a-half-million-dollar mansion. I have a wife to die for. I get to vacation in all the fabulous spots of the world. I've climbed mountains. I've explored. I've been on safaris. And all of this happened and continues to happen, because of knowing how to apply The Secret.

The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

Life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you.

Prepare your mind to recieve the best that life has to offer.

Be appreciative of what's right with your life. In your gratitude is power to make it even better

When I look around and see the beautiful people and wonderful surroundings that are now my reality, I know that I have overcome so much.

You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

Look Upon Every Experience You've Ever Had ... as Having Been Sent to You for Your Benefit

Every time you speak right, you are training yourself to think right and act right.

When we develop a right attitude of compassion and gratitude, we take a giant step towards solving our personal and international problems

Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.