Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.
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.
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.