“There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.”

A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.

He that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought.

The truly self-possessed, however, are free from the whims of fate and chance. Calmly, they affect their will, and with strength of character and purity of intention, they attract to their person solely positive outcomes.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts.

Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.

The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful.

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction.

All evil is corrective and remedial and is therefore not permanent.

When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. The calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss

They themselves are makers of themselves.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.

Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.