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.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

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.

Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.