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.

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

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.

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

Success means doing something sincerely and whole-heartedly. Click to tweet

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

“two of them together affect you emotionally and turn into moods and attitudes. If you truly want to be in a good mood on a regular basis, you can start by choosing to think about things that will generate good emotions instead of bad ones.” 

“Perhaps you need to look up and around instead of back and down. Lift your eyes and see the amazing future which bursts with hope for you in God! Don’t spend your life mourning over what you have lost and what is already gone; take an inventory of what you have left and keep going, one foot in front of the other, one step of faith at a time. Remember, God is on your side!” 

I will never prostitute myself in any way that I do what I don’t believe in.

“A man is literally what he thinks”. This might be a shocking statement, but everything is a state of mind.

There is nothing that will enable you to pursue your course in greater peace than the patient bearing of insult. Patience is not passive, on the contrary it is concentrated strength.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

The enemy of development is this pain phobia – the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering.

Jogging is not only a form of exercise to me, it is also a form of relaxation. It is my own hour every morning when I can be alone with my thoughts.

Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.

A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.