Source: Self-Reliance
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
“Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
as quoted in Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875, Barbara Novak; Oxford University Press, 2007, note 74
undated
“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.”
As quoted in Eyewitness to Power (2001) by David Gergen.
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Source: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation (1999) Page 61
“Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.”
On the Cambridge Apostles of Cambridge University, in Essays in Biography (1933) Ch. 39; also later used in My Early Beliefs, a memoir he read to the Bloomsbury Group's Memoir Club in 1943.
“You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”
As quoted in Office Yoga : Simple Stretches for Busy People (2000) by Darrin Zeer, p. 52
