The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye..

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it..

When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than ….

Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to….

No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which ….

Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse..

Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity..

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself th….

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature..

Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or….

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can hel….

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well..

A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament..

Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy..

It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Ther….

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely..

Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as….

The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!.

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it..

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his..

There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportun….