Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in
the recognition.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in
the recognition.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all
darknesses.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all
darknesses.

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came
to me.

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came
to me.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but
knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, read more

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but
knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space
and indefinite in duration.

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a
goal or goals which they really believe in, read more

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a
goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit
themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady
purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its read more

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady
purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be
happy.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be
happy.

The less routine the more life.

The less routine the more life.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.