Timeless Wisdom

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

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

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition."

"The first and greatest tactic of the Stoic is the ability to separate what is in our control from what is not."

"He is not poor who has little, but he who wants more."

"What we call knowledge is often a way to hide our ignorance."

"Great men are not born great, they grow great... by handling with aplomb the tasks others find disagreeable."

"Our actions may be impeded... but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions."

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

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

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, who is poor."

"We humans, facing limits of knowledge, and things we do not observe, the unseen and the unknown, resolve the tension by squeezing life and theory into one."

"The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history."

"The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better."

"The willing, destiny guides them. The unwilling, destiny drags them."

"Life is long, if you know how to use it."

"If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud."

"No man is free who is not master of himself."

"Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become."