We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

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

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.