Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

I am thankful for small mercies. I have discovered that I am not the master of the suite of mood-plants that grow in my garden.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other.

There are voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

Peace is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it.

Only when walking the solitary path does its true depth reveal itself.

Silence is the sacred sanctuary of the soul; speech is the noisy marketplace of human opinion.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

What you seek is seeking you.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.