It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.

Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.

The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.