Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

You have to be someone.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

Common is not the same as universal.

It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.

success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

Cease your complaining and fretting; none of these things which you blame are the cause of your poverty; the cause is within yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy. The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot; shows that you lack that faith which is the ground of all effort and progress.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.