Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Whoever said kindness should be earned is wrong. A kick in the shins is earned - kindness should be a given.

Pride makes easy decisions hard. Humility makes hard decisions easy.

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

You never know your partner as well as you think.

Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.

Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.

How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.

People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.

When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.

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