When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…
When you are above measure angry, rethink how momentary is man’s life.
What we do now echoes in eternity.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you. Your life is what your thoughts make it.
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
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.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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 opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not ‘This is misfortune,’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.
Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
And you’ll give yourself relief, if you did every act of your life as if it were the last.
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
