Life is a stranger's sojourn a night at an inn.
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.
A man's life is what his thoughts make it.
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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 compass...
Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.
If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
IN THE morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present- I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for...
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden too can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.