Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

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.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.

The only way to live, is knowing you’re going to die. If you're afraid to die, you'll never be able to live.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.

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

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.