Echoes

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

A man contains all that is needful to his government within himself. He is made a law unto himself. All real good or evil that can befal [sic] him must be from himself. He only can do himself any good or any harm. Nothing can be given to him or can taken from him but always there is a compensation.. There is a correspondence between the human soul and everything that exists in the world; more properly, everything that is known to man. Instead of studying things without the principles of them, all may be penetrated unto with him. Every act puts the agent in a new position. The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself. He is not to live the future as described to him but to live the real future to the real present. The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Though the whole world should praise him, he would not be stimulated to greater endeavour, and though the whole world should condemn him, he would not be depressed. So fixed was he in the difference between the internal judgement of himself and the external judgement of others.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Men at some time are masters of their fates:The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Do not let anyone else run your business.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

What does your conscience say? — You should become who you are.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life.

Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.