No great leader in history fought to prevent change.
The life that goes out in love to all life is the life that is full, and rich, and continually expanding in beauty and in power.
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy. . . is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
The time will come when the work of the physician will not be to treat and attempt to heal the body, but to heal the mind, which in turn will heal the body. The true physician will be a teacher; his or her work will be to keep people well, instead of trying to heal them after sickness.
The word heaven means harmony. The word hell is from the old English hell, meaning to build a wall around, to separate; to be helled was to be shut off from. Now if there is such a thing as harmony there must be that something one can be in right relations with; for to be in right relations with anything is to be in harmony with it. Again, if there is such a thing as being helled, shut off, separated from, there must be that something from which one is held, shut off, or separated.
The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.
To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.
I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.
I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts. . . When mathematicians communicate, this is made possible by each one having a direct route to truth, the consciousness of each being in a position to perceive mathematical truths directly, through the process of 'seeing'.
Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?