Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

Confine yourself to the present.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.