Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from stre….
Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?".
Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand..
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?.
Ours is a society that has falsely assumed that contribution must mean giving to some specific cause rather than simply giving our best selves. Thus….
A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else's problems. It is a strange fact but you can often handle ….
The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahe….
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necess….
Well for me, courage means having the courage to walk off the edge of what is known, with complete faith that you're not going to go crashing to the ….
Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster..
Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that at the end of the day t….
All the people in the Kuo-ch'ing monastery They say, "Han-shan is an idiot." "Am I really an idiot:" I reflect. But my reflections fail to solve the ….
Although birds coexist with us on this eroded planet, they live independently of us with a self-sufficiency that is almost a rebuke. In the world of ….
Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe doesn't allow ….
One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so th….
If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life in less and less disguise as I g….
Thoughts mold your features. Thoughts lift your soul heavenward or drag you toward hell. … As nothing reveals character like the company we like and ….
Yet we slink about like whipped curs:;... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States:;... we are under no nec….
Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse..
Truth is truth. If you hurt someone, you hurt self. If you help someone, you help self..
It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education;….