To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.

You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.