“No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.”

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.

Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.

It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.

Difficulty shows what men are.

By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

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.

People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.

Don’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.

I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

Find what you can do well and focus until you master it.

I’m stuck reliving old memories. moving aimlessly from one memory to another, in hopes of finding solitude; a serenity I never got to experience.

And I wonder if I will ever find a place where I belong or if I am destined to wander.