“Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.” 

“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.” 

“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.” 

“The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.” 

“Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.” 

“The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.” 

“Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.” 

“There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point” 

“How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.” 

“The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.” 

“Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.” 

“All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.” 

“Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.” 

“Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.” 

“The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.” 

“Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.” 

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ” 

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” 

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” 

“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.” 

“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.” 

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” 

“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.” 

“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” 

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” 

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” 

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” 

“We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh.” 

“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.” 

“To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds,” 

“Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.” 

“Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.” 

“Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.” 

“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. ” 

“Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world.” 

“There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.” 

“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.” 

“Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction”

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” 

“Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.” 

“My experience is what I agree to attend to.” 

“Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task” 

“Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.” 

“If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.” 

“Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.” 

“...do every day or two something for no other reason that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.” 

“Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.” 

“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.” 

“We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.” 

“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition”