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Never had I felt confinement less—I who feel, when I am out of sight of living, growing grass, and out of sound of birds' voices and all rural sounds, that I am not properly alive!

If you want to change the world get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward.

If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another.

Start each day with a task completed. Find someone to help you through life. Respect everyone.

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.

There are those who have gone, for want of this self-knowledge, strangely out of their way, and others who have never found it.

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

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.

We are all to some degree oppressed, unfree. We don't come to our own. It is there, but we don't get at it. The threshold must be made to shift.

It is notorious that a single successful effort of moral volition, such as saying 'no' to some habitual temptation, or performing some courageous act, will launch a man on a higher level of energy for days and weeks, will give him a new range of power.

The normal opener of deeper and deeper levels of energy is the will.

Excitements, ideas, and efforts, in a word, are what carry us over the dam.

Most of us continue living unnecessarily near our surface.

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.