Theodore Roosevelt·1899We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.
Marcus Aurelius·180 ADExternal things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.
Marcus Aurelius·171 ADYou have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.
