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.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

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

The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.

Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the other goods as well.

Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.