Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

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.

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

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 Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

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.

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Action expresses priorities.

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is a fact.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

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

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

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

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

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

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.