Book 4 Quotes

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“The universe is transformation; life is opinion.”

“How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks.”

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”

“Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.”

“Here is the rule to remember in the future, when anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."

“Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.”

“Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.”

“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”

“Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.”

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”