Echoes

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

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.

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

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

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

Be a lamp unto yourself, be a refuge to yourself. Take yourself to no external refuge. Hold fast to the Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the Truth as a refuge.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

No one saves us but ourselves, No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path Buddhas merely teach the way. By ourselves is evil done, By ourselves is pain endured, By ourselves we cease from wrong, By ourselves become we pure.

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 world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.

Every person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

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

Do not follow in the footsteps of the old masters, but seek what they sought — and find it in the mountains, the rivers, and the open sky.

Do not let anyone else run your business.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.

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

Henceforth I ask not good fortune — I myself am good fortune.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

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

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 gods help them that help themselves.