Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.
Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.
What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.
A person's life is what their thoughts make it.
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.
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.
A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.
...the infallible man does not exist.
The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind.
Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.
Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.
Remember that all is opinion.
Everything is mere opinion.
This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.
It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal - if he's living a normal life. And if it's normal, how can it be bad?
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job.
Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .
Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.
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