You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and in change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted by nature as to die.

What we do in life ripples in eternity.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.