1Never 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.
2The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
3You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
4Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
5Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
6How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
7Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
8Many lumps of incense on the same altar. One crumbles now, one later, but it makes no difference.
9Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
10Dwell on the beauty of life
11Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness.
12The best revenge is not to be like your enemy
13It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live
14Our life is what our thoughts make it
15If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it
16Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them
17Confine yourself to the present
18A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others
