If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
The greatest discovery of every generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude of mind.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Beauty without expression is boring.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it – even if I have said it – unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.
Let go of the blame, and realize that you are infinite potential. Everything that happens to you is for your growth, even though we lack the ability to see it this way sometimes. Everything that happens around you, you create.
If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
We must become the change we want to see.
We must become the change we want to see.