“Regard the troubles and cares you encounter as the punching bags of fate, given you to develop your spiritual muscle.”

Using a vivid physical metaphor for the strengthening power of adversity · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Difficulty
• Endurance
• Strength

“When we declare we are brave enough to overcome any fate, we find our strength put to the test at once.”

Suggesting that declarations of courage are inevitably tested by experience · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Courage
• Difficulty
• Endurance

“I shall succeed in whatever I undertake. I cannot fail.”

Expressing her characteristic confidence in determined action · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Confidence
• Motivation
• Success

“I shall be given help to meet anything that comes to-day. Everything will be for the best.”

A formulation of her faith in resilience and the possibility of good outcomes · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Faith
• Hope
• Resilience

“The worries and troubles of the coming day will seem less colossal.”

Encouraging a constructive mental attitude at the beginning of each day · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Anxiety
• Attitude
• Hope

“Let the spirit assert itself and demand health and hope and happiness in this new year.”

A New Year exhortation towards optimism, vitality and renewal · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Happiness
• Health
• Hope

“Out of the experiences which you have passed through you are going to build a noble and splendid character, and a successful career.”

Encouraging readers to transform experience into character and achievement · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Character
• Experience
• Success

“Consider all your troubles as an education for your mind and soul.”

Reframing adversity as an opportunity for inner education · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Difficulty
• Growth
• Learning

“Sorrow is no respecter of persons.”

Recognising suffering as a universal human experience · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Equality
• Humanity
• Sorrow

“It is weak and unreasonable to imagine destiny has selected you for special suffering.”

Challenging the tendency to regard oneself as uniquely cursed by circumstances · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Attitude
• Destiny
• Suffering

“Age is all imagination. Ignore years and they will ignore you.”

A characteristically optimistic dismissal of age as a psychological limitation · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Age
• Attitude
• Youth

“Do not tell me it is too late to be successful or happy.”

Rejecting age and circumstance as excuses for abandoning hope · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Age
• Happiness
• Hope

“The real worth-while character thanks God for its destiny and says, 'I will show the world what I can do with my life.”

Combining acceptance of circumstance with determination to make the most of life · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Achievement
• Courage
• Destiny

“There is no partiality in the Universe.”

Her belief that life ultimately operates according to a larger balance · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Destiny
• Justice
• Universe

“You are the maker and moulder of your own destiny.”

Expressing her strong belief in personal agency and self-direction · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Choice
• Destiny
• Responsibility

“There was no millionaire and no pauper soul created by God.”

Rejecting the idea that spiritual worth corresponds to economic status · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Equality
• Soul
• Wealth

“Into the Great Scheme of Existence, as first conceived by the Creator, money did not enter.”

Arguing that material wealth is not the fundamental purpose of existence · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Existence
• Money
• Values

“There is no question concerning the truth of this claim. But woe unto him who cultivates his mental and spiritual powers only for this purpose.”

Warning against using spiritual development merely as a route to wealth · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Spirituality
• Values
• Wealth

“Seek to be worthy of your own highest commendation.”

Encouraging self-respect based on one's own highest standards · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Integrity
• Self Knowledge
• Standards

“Would you be happy and successful? Then set yourself to build character.”

A concise statement of her philosophy of happiness and success · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Character
• Happiness
• Success

“Absolute wretchedness would only be possible through the loss of self-respect; the lowering of an ideal or the failure of a principle.”

Making integrity rather than circumstance the foundation of personal dignity · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Dignity
• Integrity
• Principles

“The man who has made the development of a noble and harmonious character the business of his life, accepts his sorrows as means of greater growth.”

Viewing suffering as something that can deepen rather than destroy character · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Character
• Growth
• Sorrow

“Sorrow is not necessarily unhappiness.”

Distinguishing unavoidable sorrow from a deeper loss of happiness · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Acceptance
• Happiness
• Sorrow

“To possess character is to be useful, and to be useful is to be independent, and to be useful and independent, is to be happy, even in the midst of sorrow.”

Linking character, usefulness, independence and happiness · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

• Character
• Happiness
• Independence