What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.

The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level.

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.

When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having done well or looking for a favor in return.