If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Men willingly believe what they wish.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.
When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe, then you co operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, help others be themselves.
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say, 'Stop feeling sorry for yourself--and you will be happy.'
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.
God will allow us to follow self-help, self-improvement programs until we have tried them all, until we finally come to the honest confession, ‘I can't do it. I can't be righteous in my own strength!’ It is then, when we admit our utter powerlessness, that we find hope. For it is then when the Lord intervenes to do a work that we could not do for ourselves.
To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to be or do perfectly as He wills is to reject the grace of God and to lead people to lust after self-help and self-improvemen t in a way that, to call a spade a spade, is godless.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.
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