Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.
Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.
Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
All religions begin with the cry Help.
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.
The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.
Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.
If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse.
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.