Desire and happiness cannot live together.
When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.