The main thing of importance is to know what one wants.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.

Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.