The more we value things, the less we value ourselves.

Nothing is as harmful as expectations.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

If you can allow yourself to trust those little movements round your gut that tell you when something is interesting or exciting, they will tell you where to go.

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.

Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.