“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”

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.

We must bear what Heaven sends.

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

Sometimes truth is a kind of love not many hearts can bear.

Everyone you meet teaches you something; even if they come bearing pain.

The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.