7 Powerful Sayings that Can Change Your Life

Here are 7 powerful sayings. If you decide to embrace them, and live your life with the spirit of the message in mind, they can change your thinking, and that just might change your life.

• "Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change."
  -Dr. Wayne Dyer

  Wayne Dyer's Power of Intention has a powerful message that goes far beyond positive thinking. Having a positive mental attitude (PMA) can be a great starting point, but Dr. Dyer tells us that we can actually shape our reality by the way we view the world. While it may sound crazy to some, this powerful saying actually may have some basis in science, and certainly is supported by many metaphysical schools of thought.

• "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it."
  -Helen Keller

  This quote by the amazing Helen Keller speaks to that aspect of ourselves that clings to a false notion of security, often requiring that we trade freedom and happiness in order to obtain it. In the end, we get neither freedom nor security.

• "The past does not equal the future."
  -Anthony Robbins

  Anthony Robbins always has a number of great one and two-liners you can rely on for a reality check. This little take away I got from his Personal Power II audio course. It reminds you that whatever has come before, you can carve out better results starting right now.

• “He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
  -Lao Tzu

  This quote by the founder of Taoism is a reminder that you need to focus on the things you can control, most of all, yourself.

• "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blazing new trails is a powerful technique for personal change as it forces you to push your boundaries and think outside the box.

• "I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
  -Benjamin Franklin

  This is a method of reframing. That is to say, taking one experience and viewing it in another way. Adopting this philosophy allows you the freedom to take risks.

• "If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."
  -Thomas Jefferson

  When you're trying to solve a problem, it's tempting to want to find the cause and put responsibility on someone or some thing. This can be very counterproductive. This quote was speaking about unity in the face of war, but it can apply to any situation where solving a problem needs to be put above blame or causation.