Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you
are a whole, total person, not an apprentice read more

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you
are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to
someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and
experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a read more

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

When you get through all the phony tinsel of Hollywood, you find the
genuine tinsel underneath.

When you get through all the phony tinsel of Hollywood, you find the
genuine tinsel underneath.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail.

It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail.