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Make trial how the life of a good man succeeds with you, the life of one who is content with the lot appointed him by Providence

Now the end, I take it, is all one, to live at more leisure and at one's ease: but men do not always take the right way.

In our ordinary actions there is not one of a thousand that concerns ourselves.

The man who labors without a definite purpose that is backed up by a definite plan for its attainment, resembles the ship that has lost its rudder.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

The time of such a man is always spent in forming schemes, which a change of wind hinders him from executing, his powers fume away in projects and in hope, and the day of action never arrives.

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

There are those who have gone, for want of this self-knowledge, strangely out of their way, and others who have never found it.

Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

The normal opener of deeper and deeper levels of energy is the will.

My aim is to show that only an inappreciable fraction of our ordered and sustained efforts is given to the business of actual living, as distinguished from the preliminaries to living.

Who does not see from all this that man has gone astray, that he has fallen from his place, that he seeks it with disquiet, that he cannot regain it?

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

These young people have had advantages of college, of European travel, and of economic study, but they are sustaining this shock of inaction.

Life must needs be disgusting alike to the idle rich man as to the idle poor man, who has no work to do, or, having work, will not do it.

If to-day thou art not ready, how shalt thou be ready to-morrow?

Sometimes you have to make a snap decision to change your life. Change the people you spend time with. Change the places you visit. Change routine. Staying the same won't create a new version of you. The right room and right advice can do miracles for your life.

When you take ownership of your future, things start happening. Excuses build bridges to nowhere. Don't wait for someone to rescue you. Don't wait for circumstances to be perfect. Be messy, be slow but be consistent. That's the secret to making it big.

If a man knows the wherefore of his existence, then the manner of it can take care of itself.