When you make a world tolerable for yourself you make a world tolerable for others.
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever even if your whole world seems upset.
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest it seems is an interest in life good bad or peculiar.
We are not troubled by things but by the opinion which we have of things.
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it.
We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them.
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
Riches like glory or health have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always though in the midst of sorrows and possess all things...
So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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.
Little things affect little minds.
No emotional crisis is wholly the product of outward circumstances. These may precipitate it. But what turns an objective situation into a subjectively critical one is the interpretation the individua...
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