Benjamin Franklin Quotes

I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

Try to be a better person everyday.

We all fall into biological and mental habits. It's an easy way for us to navigate day-to-day work and life, but it also doesn't do us any favours in terms of growing into wisdom, growing into a greater understanding of each other, growing into a deeper relationship - all the things that we really crave.

Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short.

In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

I just try to live a moderate life of always checking and trying to be the best person I can be and I'm in therapy and am always working on something.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Quantum wellness isn’t about deprivation and it’s not about perfection. It is about pointing yourself in the direction of growth, training yourself to get comfortable with your highest potential, and then taking small steps to support that shift. It’s about showing up for yourself, day by day, and then one day finding that you’ve undergone a transformation.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.