“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.”
Future“Do every act of your life as if it were your last.”
Life“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.”
Future“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
Art“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.”
Good“Do every act of your life as if it were your last.”
Life“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.”
Love“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
Anger“Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.”
Imagination“Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.”
Good“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.”
Happiness“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.”
Death“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Power“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.”
Change“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.”
Death“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.”
Strength“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
Truth“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
Change“Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Life“To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.”
Best“Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.”
Design“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.”
Men