Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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...
So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the large...
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What expe...
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.
Man lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture.
The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately.
The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit it is worse than a chance lost it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.