You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and read more

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room read more

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.

Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is read more

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly: cheer read more

One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly: cheer up, things could get worse. So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse.