The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

Do or do not. There is no try.

Do or do not. There is no try.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

Before you can see the light, you have to deal with the darkness.

Before you can see the light, you have to deal with the darkness.

When you truly give up trying to be whole through
others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from read more

When you truly give up trying to be whole through
others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.

I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula for
failure-which is: Try to read more

I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula for
failure-which is: Try to please everybody.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should
be-because sooner or later, if you're read more

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should
be-because sooner or later, if you're posing, you will forget the pose and
then where are you?.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.