Meditations

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.

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.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”

So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind

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

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.