“For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”

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.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.

It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

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

Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

If you choose to do something, attack it.

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It’s up to you. It’s your choice.

Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.