The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.