How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Dale Carnegie Books)

If we go still further and reject the harsh world of reality and retreat into a dream world of our own making, we will then be insane.

Is giving yourself a pep talk every day silly, superficial, childish? No, on the contrary, it is the very essence of sound psychology. “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” These words are just as true today as they were eighteen centuries ago when Marcus Aurelius first wrote them in his book on Meditations: “Our life is what our thoughts make i

“The habit of looking on the best side of every event,” said Dr. Johnson, “is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.”

If we want to stop worrying and start living, Rule 4 is: Count your blessings—not your troubles!

To sum up, here are the five ways in which Professor Phelps banished worry: I. Live with gusto and enthusiasm: “I live every day as if it were the first day I had ever seen and the last I were going to see.” II. Read an interesting book: “When I had a prolonged nervous breakdown … I began reading … the Life of Carlyle … and became so absorbed in re

Marcus Aurelius, summed it up in eight words—eight words that can determine your destiny: “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

Montaigne, the great French philosopher, adopted these seventeen words as the motto of his life: “A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.” And our opinion of what happens is entirely up to us.

“An angry man,” said Confucius, “is always full of poison.”

When I asked Mr. Kaltenborn if he had any advice to give to the young men of America who are eager to succeed, he said: “Yes, go to bat with yourself every morning. We talk a lot about the importance of physical exercise to wake us up out of the half-sleep in which so many of us walk around. But we need, even more, some spiritual and mental exercis