Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

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

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.

For we that live please must please to live.

Now is the accepted time.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

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.

Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, you will remain in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

All limitations are self-imposed.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves . . . But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Who works with all the strength he can Shall never die in debt to man.