Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.
Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
It is only by risking ... that we live at all.
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
So long as the anti-militarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of hate, so long they fail to realize the full equities of the situation.
So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Footnotes, the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text.
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.
Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
