A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, e...
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.
Resign your destiny to higher powers.
Impulse without reason is not enough and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour...
An idea to be suggestive must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful he must obey his impulse.
As Charles Lamb says there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances be...
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
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