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

To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.

Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.

There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.