Meditations

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind

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

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.