Yet do thou act as one new-born;
What each day needs, that shalt thou ask,
Each day will set its proper task.
—Goethe.
We should think just as though our thought were visible to all about us. Real character is not outward conduct, but quality of thinking.
—Henry Wood.
It is a much shallower and more ignoble occupation to detect faults than to discover beauties.
—Carlyle.
Whatever you wish to accomplish, be willing to do, and to commence your work at once, right where you find yourself, and decide that you do not want anything better to begin with than the conditions that surround you, for God is with you.
—Raja Yoga.