The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.

To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.