Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker at scraps of leather left over from work.

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.