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It also makes for contentedness, when things happen against our wish, not to overlook our many advantages and comforts, but by looking at both good and bad to feel that the good preponderate.

We gain our freedom when we attain our truest nature.

It is for our self to know that it must be born anew every moment of its life.

The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation.

Only love is motion and rest in one.

It is the function of religion not to destroy our nature but to fulfil it.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

To be beautiful and to be calm, without mental fear, is the ideal of nature. If I cannot achieve it, at least I can think it.

All life that is not merely mechanical is spun out of two strands: seeking for that bird and hearing him.

"Inherent differences" between men and women, we have come to appreciate, remain cause for celebration, but not for denigration of the members of either sex or for artificial constraints on an individual's opportunity.

We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character.

almost any man can do a great deal, if he will, by getting the utmost possible service out of the qualities that he actually possesses

It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him.

Success in life is becoming what you want to be.

Desire is a manifestation of power.

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

Every thought we think makes it necessary for us to think another thought; consciousness is continually expanding.

Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.

Every person naturally wants to become all that he is capable of becoming; this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature; we cannot help wanting to be all that we can be.

Hate has four letters, but so does love. Enemies has seven letters, but so does friends. Lying has five letters, but so does truth. Failure has seven letters, but so does success. Cry has three letters, but so does joy. Negativity has ten letters, but so does positivity. You always have a choice, so choose the better side of it.

Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.