You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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 things like them.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
What we do now echoes in eternity.
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.
Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.
It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, "my true self is free. I cannot be contained."
Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.
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.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?