wisdom

Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
-Epictetus

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
-Seneca

What we do in life ripples in eternity.
-Marcus Aurelius

Desire and happiness cannot live together.
-Epictetus

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. -Marcus Aurelius

It is not that we are given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it. -Seneca

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
-Epictetus

A man’s true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not that which he thinks and says and does. -Marcus Aurelius

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?’ -Marcus Aurelius

It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it. -Seneca