Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Let go of yesterday.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

Before all else, be armed.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch – which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.