There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it firs...
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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.
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Without a purpose nothing should be done.
Man must be arched and buttressed from within else the temple wavers to dust.
Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which th...
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts but also unnecessary thoughts for then superfluous activity will not follow.
To them that ask where have you seen the Gods or how do you know for certain there are Gods that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul and yet I respec...
The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay and this is common to the entire universe.
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.
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
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