“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” 

“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.” 

“...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.” 

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

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

“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.” 

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

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

“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,” 

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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” 

“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.” 

“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.” 

“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!” 

“Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.” 

“Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.” 

“The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.” 

“Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.” 

“Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.”