You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging read more

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's read more

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of read more

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; read more

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state read more

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find read more

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free read more

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.