"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." "Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the sunrise, feel the rain, smell the flowers, taste the breeze: Be present now." "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." "Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." "Never 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." "Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it." "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."