Everyman's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with and the future is uncertain.
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Men exist for the sake of one another.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new thing...
Let them know a real man who lives as he was meant to live.
The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.
I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compas...
Live every day as if they last.
It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go...