Stoicism

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“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.”

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

“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.”

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

“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 impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

“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.”

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

“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”

“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.”

“You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

“The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

“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.”

“Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbours, unless it is to some beneficial end.”

“The mind without passions is a citadel, for man has no fortress more impregnable to which he can retreat and be safe forever.”

“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.”

“Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what would more aptly fit your needs?”

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

“The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of those who cultivate wisdom comes from their own free act.”

“Remember that all things have been from eternity, and will be to eternity, and that they are of the same kind with one another, and that it is not possible that one thing should be different from another in a short time and in a long time.”

“He who has a clear and distinct idea of the nature of the universe, and of the nature of man, will not be disturbed by anything that happens.”