It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, "my true self is free. I cannot be contained."

Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.