If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.