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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.

Everything can be taken from a man but ... the last of the human freedoms — to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose ones own way.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society — more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.

It is never too late. Even if you are going to die tomorrow, keep yourself straight and clear and be a happy human being today.

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Custom is the great guide of human life.