Echoes

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.

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

What cannot be eschewed must be embraced

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

Through endurance we conquer.

While I breathe, I hope.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement and success have no meaning.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

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

It is difficulties that show what men are.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

Character is the virtue of hard times.