Manly P Hall

"The moment you face facts honestly and intelligently, you enjoy the mystery of a new birth. You can have a new and different life when you decide to shoulder the full responsibility for your own happiness and security.
Patterns cease when we change, for they are the products of our own habits. Good habits make good patterns and, when we live according to clear inner vision of the laws governing our kind, we discover a serenity of spirit that we can never know if we follow policies of compromise."
Excerpted from "The Secret of the Untroubled Mind" ©1965 The Philosophical Research Society