Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else’s view or a mere book.

The important thing for you is to be alert, to question, to find out, so that your own initiative may be awakened.

Those who distrust the life-giving force within them, or who have none, are driven to compensate through such substitutes as money.

When a man has confidence in himself, when all he wants in the world is to live out his destiny in freedom and purity, he comes to regard all those vastly overestimated and far too costly possessions as mere accessories, pleasant perhaps to have and make use of, but never essential.

We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external rating by others for our happiness.

So it is true that the more we values things, the less we value our self. The more we depend upon others for esteem, the less we are self-sufficient.

We realize that manipulation and control are not the ultimate joy of life – to become real, to learn to take a stand, to develop one’s center, to the support of our total personality, a release to spontaneity – yes, yes, yes!

Since life is an ever-evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.

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Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else’s view or a mere book.

People have to grow by skillful frustrations, otherwise they have no incentive to develop their own means and ways of coping with the world.

Head toward self-expression and self-actualization and not just a means of mediocre functioning or repetitious drilling on a chosen pattern.

My only sure reward is “in” my actions and not “from” them. The quality of my reward is in the depth of my response, the centralness of the part of me I act from.

This world is very practical. You do more work, you get rewarded more; you do less work, you lose your rewards.

When you are in the now, you can’t be anxious, because the excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

Oftentimes business people see not a human being but a product, a commodity. However, you, as a human being, have the right to be the best goddamn product that ever walked and work so hard that the business people have to listen to you.

You have that personal obligation to yourself to make yourself the best product possible according to your own terms.

Not the biggest or the most successful, but the best quality – with that achieved, comes everything else.

Action is a highroad to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.

The main thing is not to expend one’s powers prematurely in an attempt to obtain by force something for which the time is not yet ripe.

In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others. When we are completely self-sufficient we can have no fear of not being esteemed by others.

One should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.

Wait in the calm strength of patience – he that is strong should guard it with tenderness.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate

There is no weapon more deadly than the will.

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity. Bruce Lee

It is not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed in what you have learned.

Not “what” to think but “how” to think.

An intelligent mind is one which is constantly learning, never concluding – styles and patterns have come to conclusion, therefore they have ceased to be intelligent.

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Pleasure is the flower that fades, remembrance is the lasting perfume.

There is intelligence when you are not afraid.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities

A goal is not always meant to be reached. It often serves simply as something to aim at.

Keep your mind on the things you want and off those you don’t.

Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Be like water; water has form and yet it has no form. It is the softest element on earth, yet it penetrates the hardest rock.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Remember my friend that it is not what happens that counts, it is how you react to them.

Your mental attitude determines what you make of it, either a stepping stone or stumbling block.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Remember, success is a journey, not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

It is not daily increase but daily decrease – hack away the unessential! The closer to the source, the less wastage there is.

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

No one can hurt you unless you allow him to.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do

Empty yourself! Open up! After all, the usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness.

Ever since I was a kid, the word “quality” has meant a lot to me.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.