You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
I'm an introvert. I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.
I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.
There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.
If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.
If you wish to control others you must first control yourself.
When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.
The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.
Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.