- Sometimes it takes bravery just to survive.
- "True happiness is to enjoy the present without worrying about the future. It is not to entertain ourselves with hopes or concerns, but to rest pleased with what we have because he who is thus wants nothing to keep him from being happy. The greatest gifts that humanity has to offer are both within and accessible to us. A sensible man accepts his lot in life, whatever it may be, and does not yearn for what he does not have.
- All brutality is the result of weakness.
- We suffer more from our imagination than from reality, and we are more frequently scared than harmed.What prevents us from asserting that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless, and steadfast – a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear and the reach of desire, that counts virtue as the only good, baseness as the only evil, and all other things but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract from the happy life nor add to it?
- Since he takes pleasure in his own resources and seeks no delights larger than his own joy, a man who is this grounded must obviously be accompanied by constant cheerfulness and a deep, inner joy.
- "Putting things off is the worst waste of life; it robs us of the present by promising the future and steals away each day as it comes. Expectancy is the biggest barrier to living since it depends on future and ignores present. You are setting up what is under Fortune's control and letting go of what is under your control. What are you observing? What are you putting effort into? The future is unclear in its whole; act now.
- "Expectancy is the biggest barrier to life since it depends on tomorrow and ignores today. You are setting up what is under Fortune's control and letting go of what is under your control. What are you observing? What are you putting effort into? The future is unclear in its whole; act now.
- “Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool ”
- We don't have a short life expectancy; rather, we waste a lot of it. If it were all well invested, life is long enough and a suitably ample quantity has been given to us for the finest accomplishments. But when it is wasted in careless luxury and used for useless endeavours, we are finally forced by death's last restraint to acknowledge that it has already passed away before we realised it was going. As a result, we don't have a short life; rather, we shorten it by wasting the resources we have. If you know how to use it, life is lengthy.
- As physical exertion does for the body, difficulties strengthen the mind.