Quotes to inspire and reflect

I want freedom for the full expression on my personality.

I row after health like a waterman...

In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.

happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.

Regimen is superior to medicine.

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?

True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain.

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

Each body has its art...

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.

Dare to be yourself.

Security is a kind of death.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you? Act for yourself. Face the truth.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Revolution is not a onetime event.

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

Everything appears to change when we change.

The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

Our lives teach us who we are.

Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.