Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

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.

Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.