You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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.
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be one.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
Your life is what your thoughts make it.
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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.
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
Where a man can live, he can also live well.
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others.
