He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
Personal development – the never ending chance to improve not only yourself, but also to attract opportunities and affect others.
I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.
In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present – I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?
Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance – now, at this very moment – of all external events. That’s all you need.
If I fail, I try again, and again, and again.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.