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.
No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.
The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'
What we do in life ripples in eternity.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.
Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?
The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level.
Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.
What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.
Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?
I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.
You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others.
Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.
Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: