We tend to discover only those things we seek.

We should earnestly desire but few things if we clearly knew what we desired.

We only think when confronted with a problem.

We only do well the things we like doing.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen

Our demands most moderate are: we only want the earth.

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.

The first is to develop a taste for having problems. Behind our urge to race through every obstacle or challenge, in an effort to get it "dealt with," there's usually the unspoken fantasy that you might one day finally reach the state of having no problems whatsoever. As a result, most of us treat the problems we encounter as doubly problematic: first because of whatever specific problem we're facing; and second because we seem to believe, if only subconsciously, that we shouldn't have problems at all. Yet the state of having no problems is obviously never going to arrive.

people only complain about things they can do something about.

I only fear danger where I want to fear it.

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

The key is to work out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us what we really want.