It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.

Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

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.