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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.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

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

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

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The trick is finding a person whose flaws don't drive you crazy...you know...someone whose flaws you can live with...someone who can stand your flaws, too.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.