The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realising that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
aanyi33bohas quoted10 months ago
And without the power to concentrate—that is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience—true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence.
aanyi33bohas quoted10 months ago
And habits are the very dickens to change! Further, any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
aanyi33bohas quoted10 months ago
We are obliged, by various codes written and unwritten, to maintain ourselves and our families (if any) in health and comfort, to pay our debts, to save, to increase our prosperity
aanyi33bohas quoted10 months ago
We are obliged, by various codes written and unwritten, to maintain ourselves and our families (if any) in health and comfort, to pay our debts, to save, to increase our prosperity by increasing our efficiency.
aanyi33bohas quoted10 months ago
Waste your infinitely precious commodity as much as you will, and the supply will never be withheld from you. No mysterious power will say:—"This man is a fool, if not a knave.
aanyi33bohas quoted10 months ago
You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours.
aanyi33bohas quoted10 months ago
wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours.
aanyi33bohas quoted10 months ago
supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.
aanyi33bohas quoted10 months ago
We are nearly all chancellors of the exchequer: it is the pride of the moment.