We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.