The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

It is your friends who make your world.

All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.