Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.

When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.