Echoes

The adjective hasn't yet been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

I felt before I thought: this is the common lot of humanity.

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

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

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Man is what he believes.

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

Everything is interaction and reciprocal.

The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

Nature everywhere speaks to man in a voice familiar to his soul.

That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. Use the word not as a means of denial or in antithesis, never as a means of evasion.

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