The universe is change; our life is
what our thoughts make it.
The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the
universe.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and
evil.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume
that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within
the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your
own compass also.
A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you
have already.
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a
bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season
without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast
and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has
ordained that you shall live.
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts
you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this
worthily is good fortune.'
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that
which is the product of several, and the majority of our
controversies come from that.
Begin
− to begin is half the work, the other half still remains; again
begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say
it.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the
causes of it.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Very little is needed to
make a happy life; it is all within
yourself, in your way of
thinking.
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious
privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to
love.
Each day provides its own gifts.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your
thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you
entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Accept the things to which
fate binds you, and love the people
with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your
heart.
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and
asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing
is made worse or better by praise.
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself
more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his
own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the
causes of it.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its
current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept
by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and
fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have
to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against
the present.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from
desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the
mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
