It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

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

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other

Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.

Embrace reality. Think about what delights you - the small luxuries on which you depend, the people whom you cherish most. But remember that they have their own distinct character, which is quite a separate matter from how we happen to regard them.

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

No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.