If you make friends with yourself, you'll never have to be alone.

Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

For we that live please must please to live.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristics in men.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Those who drink to drown their sorrow should be told sorrow knows how to swim.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Such sober certainty of walking bliss.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.

Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

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.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

Esteem to your higher self.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

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.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.