“To perceive is to suffer.”

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Whatever you’re going through in your life, don’t ever give up.

Motivation gets you through the day, but inspiration lasts a lifetime.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.

An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.

You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

You’d be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don’t have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.