Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character in the universe, and of the inadequacy of fully to match it [to] the peculiar systems that he knows.

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.