It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist.

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.

Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.

The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.