What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.