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The man that stands upon a principle is the same calm, dauntless, self-possessed man under all circumstances.

Do not then vainly imagine that you can obtain the heavenly possessions without making an effort.

As there are silent depths in the ocean which the fiercest storm cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths in the heart of man which the storms of sin and sorrow can never disturb.

Sorrow purifies and deepens the soul, and the extremity of sorrow is the prelude to Truth.

Whether one be fearful or fearless, foolish or wise, troubled or serene, within that soul lies the cause of its own state or states, and never without.

Cease your complaining and fretting; none of these things which you blame are the cause of your poverty; the cause is within yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy.

To be swayed by your fluctuating thoughts and impulses is to be weak and powerless; to rightly control and direct those forces is to be strong and powerful.

To grow in self-control, in patience, in equanimity, is to grow in strength and power; and you can only thus grow by focusing your consciousness upon a principle.

Idleness and a strong will cannot go together, and procrastination is a total barrier to the acquisition of purposeful action.

To be able to do a thing, you must begin to do it, and keep on doing it until the thing is mastered.

If he is perplexed, unhappy, restless, or wretched, let him look to himself, for there and nowhere else is the source of all his trouble.

Man is a thought-being, and his life and character are determined by the thoughts in which he habitually dwells.

Reverie is a loose dreaming into which a man falls; meditation is a strong, purposeful thinking into which a man rises.

Give scrupulous attention to the duty of the present moment.

Concentration is an aid to the doing of something; it is not the doing of something in itself.

Nothing comes unbidden; where the shadow is, there also is the substance.