Echoes

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

What cannot be eschewed must be embraced

All life is problem-solving.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.

Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

Accept everything just the way it is.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

We have a given problem to solve. If we undertake the solution, there is, of course, always danger that we may not solve it aright; but to refuse to undertake the solution simply renders it certain that we cannot possibly solve it aright.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death "He is going to pay his debt to society," but: "They are going to cut off his head." It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

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

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

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. If it's unendurable . . . then stop complaining. Your destruction will mean its end as well.