Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
All religions begin with the cry Help.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
If it works, it's true.
Individuality is founded in feeling
Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.
When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.
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