A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
Where the mind goes, the man follows.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.