For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What...
In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.
A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever anyone at hand sets you right and unsettles you ...
Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ...
The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love
