Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.
Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.
The best place to get help is from yourself.
If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.
It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.