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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

Build what you want to see in the world.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.

Don’t let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they’ve accomplished that makes them feel good… not in the hedonist aspect, but in the sense of personal accomplishment, as far as what they’ve accomplished for them, as far as their self-development and creativity is concerned.

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Self – development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You’re moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

Take what’s useful, discard what is not.

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke, all with a spontaneity born of freedom. Their faces are fluid and reflect a timeless sweetness, even into old age.

Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other activities that contribute to the welfare of the community.

A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that he created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that he required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of his laws.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

You don’t have to go where you don’t want to be to get where you want to be. You can go from where you are to where you want to be.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

You’re always getting a perfect vibrational match to what you predominantly give your attention to. But you’ve got to make the best of it. You’ve got to vibrate slightly different from where you are if you are going to improve where you are. You can’t keep taking score of where your business is or your relationship is or your body is without continuing to create it as it is. To make improvement, you’ve got to reach for a different thought.

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Every person with whom you interact is a part of the person you are becoming. Not a single interaction with a single person is left out of the process of your becoming.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Man must have results, real results, in his inner and outer life. I do not mean the results which modern people strive after in their attempts at self-development. These are not results, but only rearrangements of psychic material, a process the Buddhists call ‘samsara’ and which our Holy Bible calls ‘dust’.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

Self fulfillment thinks of how something serves me. Self development thinks of how something helps me to serve others. With self fulfillment, feeling good is the product. With self development, feeling good is the by-product.