A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.