Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.