Give yourself a gift: the present moment.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

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.

In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

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.