To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

The great enemy of morality is indifference.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.