Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in it with the known. If it be inhuman, make it figure as part of a story. If it be difficult, couple its acquisition with some prospect of personal gain. Above all things, make sure that it shall run through certain inner changes, since no unvarying object can possibly hold the mental field for long.

The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains, if understood, would be simply the account of how the atoms came to be so caught and jammed.

Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.