Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Topic: Awareness, Perception, Self
- Location: California, Lake Almanor
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
A problem well-put is half-solved.
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined or the insect, as well for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.
The more I study science the more I believe in God.
Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.
If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.
If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.
You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.
