Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

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.

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life.

Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains. . .But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree. . .when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Remember this that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.

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.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.''

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.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.