Life and Existence

Keep cool. It will be all gone a hundred years hence.

To thine ownself be true.

We are all born originals. Why is it so many of us die copies?

We are all born originals. Why is it so many of us die copies?

We are all born originals. Why is it so many of us die copies?

Heaven never helps the man who will not act.

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the journey alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the journey alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the journey alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale of all.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.