When your views on the world and your intellect are being challenged
and you begin to feel uncomfortable because of read more

When your views on the world and your intellect are being challenged
and you begin to feel uncomfortable because of a contradiction you've
detected that is threatening your current model of the world or some
aspect of it, pay attention. You are about to learn something. This
discomfort and intellectual conflict is when learning is taking place.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and
prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity read more

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and
prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of
a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his
surroundings.

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.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator read more

If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.

It takes only one other person to say it's so—one other point of
reality—to make something real.

It takes only one other person to say it's so—one other point of
reality—to make something real.

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy,
rich or poor.

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy,
rich or poor.

Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that read more

Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.