“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

Only the educated are free.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.

I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.

Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.

His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

Ah, grief makes us precise!