Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.

If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception