Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.

If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.