Chris Hardwick Quotes

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

You control what you can control.

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.

To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

I think that we have to consciously be aware that every moment we're in, every different stage in our lives, we can control.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

I'm not in charge of my life.

We can't determine our emotions, but we can choose our attitudes and actions.

In Buddhism, you have to believe in yourself. You don't believe something external guides your life. You do it yourself.

I'll worry about things I can control.

I just control what I control.

In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you stay focused, not on the rightness, wrongness, fairness of the event, but on the appropriateness of your response.

If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.