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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.
Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.
Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.
Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?
Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.
He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.
A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.
No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.
If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.
The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?
If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.
The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.
God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.
Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.
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.
You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?
Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.
How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.
Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.