Your thoughts are an echo. What you send out returns.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Appearance rules the world.

When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

The more I study science the more I believe in God.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

If you want material prosperity, you must first think prosperity thoughts, and then make a habit of doing so, for the thing that keeps most people poor is the sheer habit of poverty thinking.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

The oldest, shortest words - “yes” and “no” - are those which require the most thought.