Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
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.
Develop your character steadily, for the greater the delay, the more constricted you are by your own faults.
No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he doesn't possess?...It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - respect
When you arise in the morning, think of what's precious privelege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy and to love
Perfection of charater is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, with out apathy, without pretence.
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 our darkness
If anyman despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saything anything deservering of comtempt.
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
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.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
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.
