Your subconscious mind can never accept something that can be changed. You can accept the death of a relative because you know that he won't come back but you would never accept loving your body if there are things that can be changed about it.

-- M.Farouk Radwan

En fait, il ne s'agit pas de faire de l'angelisme, donc d'éradiquer les pensées négatives parce qu'elles sont négatives mais parce qu'elles sont fausses.

-- Renaud Perronnet

We are what we think: Valerie Mason-John

If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you'll become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.

-- Mihaly Czikszentmilhalyi

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there.

-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do you no harm."~African Proverb‌

-- Les Brown

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, & his suffering is spilling over.

-- Thich Nhat Hanh

The only relationship we can have is the relationship we have with the "self." Everything else is a reflection of that relationship.

-- Iyanla Vanzant

No need to worry what people think about you because most people aren't thinking about you.

-- Simon Sinek

People don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions distroyed....

Les gens ne veulent pas entendre la vérité car ils ne veulent pas voir leurs illusions détruites.

-- Vincent McDoom

chacun voit midi à sa porte

Chacun se préoccupe de son propre intérêt avant toute autre chose, et considère ses problèmes ou ses opinions comme étant les plus importants.

Mais chacun voit midi à sa porte, inutile de discuter.

-- Wiktionary

Thandie Newton: Embracing otherness, embracing myself

http://www.ted.com/talks/thandie_newton_embracing_otherness_embracing_myself.html

There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that results from the thorough transformation and development of the mind. We can see in our own lives that the latter form of happiness is superior because when our mental state is calm and happy, we can easily put up with minor pains and physical discomforts. On the other hand, when our mind is restless and upset, the most comfortable physical facilities do not make us happy.

-- DL

C’est dans la lutte contre les pensées, et là seulement, que réside la possibilité d’une véritable libération.

-- Arnaud Desjardins

A person's behavior can be influenced by urges that exist only in the subconscious.

-- Merriam-Webster,  "subconscious"