Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.