“We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.”
“We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.”
“If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.”
“To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.”
“The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
“Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.”
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
“A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.”
“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”
“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.”
“Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.”
“There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.”
“Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.”
“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the ''as if'' technique.”
“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.”
“An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.”
“Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.”
“The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.”
“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.”
“The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.”
“To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.”
“If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.”
“Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.”
“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”
“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
“If merely ''feeling good'' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”
“The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.”
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
“We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.”