Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?

Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.

Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?

It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.

Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat.

Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?".

Whatever we really are, that let us be, in all fearlessness. Whatever we are not, that let us cease striving to be.