1,328 quotes found
“Look well into thyself there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.”
“There is only one way to end a self-pity cycle: stop comparing yourself to others and simply follow Christ.”
“Suffering isn't ennobling recovery is.”
“God why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh lead me to the Beyond within.”
“The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.”
“There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.”
“Man must be arched and buttressed from within else the temple wavers to dust.”
“God creates the animals man creates himself.”
“When any fit of gloominess or perversion of mind lays hold upon you make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.”
“Let women be provided with living strength of their own.”
“Every man is his own ancestor and every man his own heir. He devises his own future and he inherits his own past.”
“In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
“The cure for grief is motion.”
“When you find yourself overpowered as it were by melancholy the best way is to go out and do something.”
“The best mask for demoralization is daring.”
“Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.”
“Our awesome responsibility to ourselves to our children and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.”
“Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment heredity and movements and changes in the world about him then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life ...”
“Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.”
“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
