We are far more like somebody watching ourselves than somebody in charge of ourselves.

Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving.

Lucky people create, notice and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives. Being in the right place at the right time is actually all about being in the right state of mind.

The concept of luck is very straightforward. Some people notice opportunities and others don't.

Lucky people create, notice, and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives.

Happiness doesn't just flow from success; it actually causes it.

Hugely enjoyable and insightfulGosling has produced the perfect combination of rigorous research and lightness of prose to create a book that will transform every reader into a super snooper.

Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a key role in shaping how we see the world.

I agree that by the standards of any other area of science that remote viewing is proven.

Because remote viewing is such an outlandish claim that will revolutionise the world, we need overwhelming evidence before we draw any conclusions. Right now we don't have that evidence.

When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life.

Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.

When you can overcome the fear of failure, success will not be far away.

if only people stopped acting like they've been asked to donate a lung every time somebody asks for something the world would be a better place

* Thoughts are energy, energy is matter, and matter doesn’t disappear.* Pay attention to coincidence.* You can choose your identity." And a recent one: Only the present moment matters.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

You can endure change by pondering His permanence.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

A pig painted gold is still a pig.

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.