#stoicism

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

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

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.

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

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.

The best revenge is not to be like that.

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

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.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Confine yourself to the present.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

He who is brave is free.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions.

Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

When we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles.