It does matter what we think about. We direct our lives by directing our thoughts. I want to share some of my favorites. Great ideas can direct our lives in wonderful ways!

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. We need only in cold blood act as if the thing in question were real and it will become infallibly real by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real. It will become so knit with habit and emotion that our interest in it will be those which characterize belief. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich. If you wish to learned, you will be learned. If you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must then really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly. William James

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. Abraham Lincoln

To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself. Thus earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence. Samuel Smiles

The key to success and the key to failure: We become what we think about! A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it. Marcus Aurelius

A man is what he thinks about all day long. Emerson