All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

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