Life is like any other contact sport; you’re gonna get your knocks. But it’s not the knocks that count, it’s how you handle them. If you handle them with anger, distrust, jealousy, hate, this in return is what you’re going… — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
All feelings derive and become alive, whether negative or positive, from the power of Thought — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
What we are talking about is learning to live in the present moment, in the now. When you aren't distracted by your own negative thinking, when you don't allow yourself to get lost in moments that are gone or yet to come, you are left with this moment. This moment-now-truly is the only moment you have. It is beautiful and… — Sydney Banks Copy Share
If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world. — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
Life is like any other contact sport. You may encounter hardships of one sort or another. Wise people find happiness not in the absence… — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
Someone once said to me, 'Are you telling me that chair isn't real, that it's only thought?' I said 'Of course the chair is… — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in. — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
“From a recording: "If you're listening to this in your car and you find yourself in a beautiful feeling, roll down your window, pop… — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
“Take that rose bush, for example. We are all looking at the same plant, but our perception of it varies according to the way… — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
Life is like any other contact sport; you’re gonna get your knocks. But it’s not the knocks that count, it’s how you handle them.… — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
And in this game of life, we all search for ourselves. When I say selves, I mean ‘inner selves’, the thing that created the… — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
If we can forgive everyone, regardless of what he or she may have done, we nourish the soul and allow our whole being to… — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
