Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.
The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.
Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.