He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

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.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

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.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

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.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

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.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

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.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

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.'

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

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.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

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.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

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.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

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.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

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.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.