“Was there ev“Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!” er a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!” 

“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.” 

“Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.” 

“Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.” 

“Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.” 

“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.” 

“A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.” 

“Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.” 

“beleive in yourself and the world will be at your feet” 

“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. ” 

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” 

“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” 

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

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.” 

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” 

“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.”