“Our thoughts make us what we are.”

Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

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American writer and lecturer 1888–1955

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“We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

As rendered by T. Byrom (1993), Shambhala Publications.
There is no quote from the Pali Canon that matches up with any of these. The closest quote to this is in the Majjhima Nikaya 19:
"Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking & pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness. If a monk keeps pursuing thinking imbued with sensuality, abandoning thinking imbued with renunciation, his mind is bent by that thinking imbued with sensuality. If a monk keeps pursuing thinking imbued with ill will, abandoning thinking imbued with non-ill will, his mind is bent by that thinking imbued with ill will. If a monk keeps pursuing thinking imbued with harmfulness, abandoning thinking imbued with harmlessness, his mind is bent by that thinking imbued with harmfulness." Sources: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.019.than.html
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“We are not trapped by our thoughts. What we generally do, however, is create thoughts that trap us.” (p.162)”

Joshua David Stone (1953–2005) American writer

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“It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential. That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world.”

Fred Rogers (1928–2003) American television personality

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“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

The universe is flux, life is opinion.
The universe is transformation: life is opinion. (Long translation)
ὁ κόσμος ἀλλοίωσις, ὁ βίος ὑπόληψις.
IV, 3
Variant: Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV

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“In the cases of nearly all of us, what our fathers were, we are, and we make up our reasons afterwards.”

Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) English theologian

Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.29

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