The obstacle is the way. What stands in the path becomes the path.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive.

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.

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

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don't have.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

We are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it.

If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Receive without pride, let go without attachment.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will.

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

No man is free who is not master of himself.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

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

Don't seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will - then your life will flow well.

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 soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.