Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

How could I have been anyone other than me?

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is read more

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for read more

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.