Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
All problems are illusions of the mind.
I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.
To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.
If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.
For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
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.
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.
Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.
The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.
You don’t need to be better than anyone else; you just need to be better than you used to be.
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.