Nothing great comes into being all at once.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.

It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems