Life and Existence

I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.

My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

A great flame follows a little spark.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell!

Look at frustration as a positive thing. It is the frustration that drives you to improve.

Change your thoughts and you Change your world.

Change your thoughts and you Change your world.

You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. Get interested in something! Get absolutely enthralled with something! Get out of yourself! Be somebody! Do something! The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. Get interested in something! Get absolutely enthralled with something! Get out of yourself! Be somebody! Do something! The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

The illuminable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it.

The illuminable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems—but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems—but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

My mistakes are my life.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.