This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

A person's life is what their thoughts make it.

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.