To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel read more

To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and read more

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either read more

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a read more

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.