Live as though life were created for you.
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
If you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.
Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself.
If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.
Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.
The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.
What you resist, persists.
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.
We are constantly invited to be who we are.
I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.
Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.