Everything is but what we think it.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.