What we do in life ripples in eternity.
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.
I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.
Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception
A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?
The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level.
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.
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.
Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.
The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.
Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.
So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.
What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.
The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.
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