To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
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.
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Confine yourself to the present.
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.
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for.
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
