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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.
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, read more
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
I have just about all I can take of myself.
I have just about all I can take of myself.
Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.
Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
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.
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.
It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do.
It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do.
