Life and Existence

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Do what you can, with what you have, right where you are.

My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Duties are not performed for duties' sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty, the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me." And then you have found that attitude, follow it.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me." And then you have found that attitude, follow it.

There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Circumstances do not make the man; they merely reveal him to himself.

What one great thing would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail? The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour by hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.