“We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.” 

“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.” 

“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.” 

“Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.” 

“Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?” 

“There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.” 

“Why should we think upon things that are lovely Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.” 

“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition” 

“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.” 

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” 

“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.” 

“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.” 

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” 

“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.” 

“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.” 

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” 

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.” 

“Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.” 

“The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.” 

“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.” 

“They alone live, who live for others.” 

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. ” 

“Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ” 

“In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path”