Resilience

“Your first duty is to bless your body.”

Charles & Myrtle Fillmore

How to Let God Help You

“Poverty or Prosperity—it all depends on you.”

Charles & Myrtle Fillmore

Prosperity

“Character is not a thing of chance, but it is the result of continued effort.”

Charles F. Haanel

The Master Key System

“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.”

Christian D. Larson

Your Forces and How to Use Them

“Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.”

Christian D. Larson

Your Forces and How to Use Them

“Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.”

Christian D. Larson

Your Forces and How to Use Them

“Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”

Christian D. Larson

Your Forces and How to Use Them

“Every day, in every respect, I am getting better and better.”

Emile Coué

Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion

“We are what we make ourselves and not what circumstances make us.”

Emile Coué

Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion

“Keep your eye on the Eternal and your intellect will grow.”

Emma Curtis Hopkins

High Mysticism

“Metaphysicians, in tracing the cause of evil conditions, have all agreed that fear of evil is the only evil.”

Emma Curtis Hopkins

Scientific Christian Mental Practice

“There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal.”

Emmet Fox

Power Through Constructive Thinking

“Prayer will enable you, sooner or later, to get yourself, or anyone else, out of any difficulty on the face of the earth.”

Emmet Fox

The Golden Key

“One who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love.”

Ernest Holmes

The Science of Mind

“I cast this burden on the Christ within, and I go free.”

Florence Scovel Shinn

The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you.”

Genevieve Behrend

Your Invisible Power

“We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.”

Genevieve Behrend

Your Invisible Power

“Life is a problem which has for each an individual solution.”

Horatio W. Dresser

The Power of Silence

“Truth is not truth for us until we have made it our own through reflection.”

Horatio W. Dresser

The Power of Silence

“Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself.”

James Allen

As a Man Thinketh

“Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”

James Allen

As a Man Thinketh

“Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.”

James Allen

As a Man Thinketh

“Knowledge is the certainty of truth. In Love there is no fear.”

Malinda E. Cramer

Divine Science and Healing

“Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.”

Mary Baker Eddy

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

“We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.”

Mary Baker Eddy

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

“Weak men wait for opportunities, strong men make them.”

Orison Swett Marden

Pushing to the Front

“Science is wisdom reduced to practice.”

Phineas P. Quimby

The Quimby Manuscripts

“This mighty truth is the golden thread that runs through all religions.”

Ralph Waldo Trine

In Tune with the Infinite

“Your mind is master of your body.”

Robert Collier

The Secret of the Ages

“It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it.”

Thomas Troward

The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science

“You will learn of the unlimited power that is yours.”

U.S. Andersen

Three Magic Words

“To get rich, you need only to use your will power upon yourself.”

Wallace D. Wattles

The Science of Getting Rich

“Mind is a manifestation of force entirely distinct from that we call matter.”

Warren Felt Evans

The Mental Cure

“The fundamental idea of mental disease is a loss of balance between the intellectual and affectional departments of the mind.”

Warren Felt Evans

The Mental Cure

“Fear is a habit of mind which has been fastened upon us by negative race-thought, but from which we may free ourselves by individual effort and perseverance.”

William Walker Atkinson

Thought Vibration, or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World

“Worry is the child of Fear—if you kill out Fear, Worry will die for want of nourishment.”

William Walker Atkinson

Thought Vibration, or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World

“What a man can be, he must be.”

Abraham Maslow

Motivation and Personality

“The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.”

Abraham Maslow

Motivation and Personality

“Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.”

Abraham Maslow

Toward a Psychology of Being

“The Masters of Wisdom are those members of the human family who have made the evolutionary journey ahead of us.”

Benjamin Creme

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom

“Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.”

Brian Tracy

Effective Leadership

“Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, 'If it's to be, it's up to me.'”

Brian Tracy

Effective Leadership

“Excuse-itis, the failure disease, will ruin any chance for success.”

David J. Schwartz

The Magic of Thinking Big

“How you think determines how you act. How you act, in turn, determines how others react to you.”

David J. Schwartz

The Magic of Thinking Big

“Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.”

Eric Butterworth

In the Flow of Life

“This challenge did not come to stay. It came to pass.”

Eric Butterworth

In the Flow of Life

“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.”

Jim Rohn

The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle

“Guilt says I've done something wrong; shame says there is something wrong with me.”

John Bradshaw

Healing the Shame That Binds You

“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.”

Joseph Campbell

Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion

“Follow your bliss.”

Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth

“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.”

Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth

“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”

Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth

“Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”

Leo Buscaglia

Living, Loving and Learning

“We can only learn to love by loving.”

Leo Buscaglia

Love

“Life is difficult.”

M. Scott Peck

The Road Less Traveled

“Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems.”

M. Scott Peck

The Road Less Traveled

“Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs.”

M. Scott Peck

The Road Less Traveled

“The tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness.”

M. Scott Peck

The Road Less Traveled

“We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.”

M. Scott Peck

The Road Less Traveled

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich

“A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.”

Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”

Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”

Og Mandino

The Greatest Salesman in the World

“I will persist until I succeed.”

Og Mandino

The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

Og Mandino

The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.”

Richard Bach

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.”

Richard Bach

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.”

Richard Bach

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“The gull sees farthest who flies highest.”

Richard Bach

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“Our fears arise from things we don't confront. Once we are willing to look fully and deeply at the source of a fear, it loses its power.”

Shakti Gawain

Creative Visualization

“In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.”

Shakti Gawain

Creative Visualization

“Feel the fear and do it anyway!”

Susan Jeffers

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

“The fear will never go away as long as I continue to grow.”

Susan Jeffers

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

“The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it.”

Susan Jeffers

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked.”

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

“To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.”

W. Clement Stone

Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude

“Love yourself, a lot.”

Wayne Dyer

Your Erroneous Zones

“You are what you choose today, not what you have chosen before.”

Wayne Dyer

Your Erroneous Zones

“If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.”

Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top

“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”

Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top

“There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.”

Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top

“Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity, but it can be a resource for creativity.”

Adam Grant

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

“The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most.”

Adam Grant

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

“The purpose of learning isn't to affirm our beliefs; it's to evolve our beliefs.”

Adam Grant

Think Again

“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”

Angela Duckworth

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.”

Arianna Huffington

Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success

“There is no greater threat to the critics and cynics and fearmongers than those of us who are willing to fall because we have learned how to rise.”

Brené Brown

Rising Strong

“We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices.”

Bruce Lipton

Spontaneous Evolution

“To fully thrive, we must not only eliminate the stressors but also actively seek joyful, loving, fulfilling lives that stimulate growth processes.”

Bruce Lipton

The Biology of Belief

“The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.”

Carol Dweck

Mindset

“Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?”

Carol Dweck

Mindset

“In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.”

Carol Dweck

Mindset

“In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail—or if you're not the best—it's all been wasted.”

Carol Dweck

Mindset

“The power paradox is this: we rise in power and make a difference in the world due to what is best about human nature, but we fall from power due to what is worst.”

Dacher Keltner

The Power Paradox

“In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.”

Daniel Goleman

Emotional Intelligence

“Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.”

Daniel Pink

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

“Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.”

Daniel Pink

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”

Deepak Chopra

The Path to Love

“Always do your best.”

Don Miguel Ruiz

The Four Agreements

“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”

Eckhart Tolle

A New Earth

“True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.”

Eckhart Tolle

Stillness Speaks

“Belonging is about being in relationships and communities where you're valued for who you are intrinsically, and where you value others in turn.”

Emily Esfahani Smith

The Power of Meaning

“Purpose is about having something worthwhile to do with your time.”

Emily Esfahani Smith

The Power of Meaning

“Storytelling is about how you make sense of your experiences and the world around you.”

Emily Esfahani Smith

The Power of Meaning

“Remember: if we were happy and complete, we wouldn't judge.”

Gabby Bernstein

Judgment Detox

“I am responsible for what I see.”

Gabby Bernstein

May Cause Miracles

“In every given moment we have a divine spiritual assignment: choose love or choose fear.”

Gabby Bernstein

Miracles Now

“I step back and let the Universe lead the way.”

Gabby Bernstein

The Universe Has Your Back

“Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait without anxiety.”

Gabby Bernstein

The Universe Has Your Back

“Even if your ambitions are huge, start slow, start small, build gradually, build smart.”

Gary Vaynerchuk

Crush It!

“Always put your money back into your business.”

Gary Vaynerchuk

Crushing It!

“We can do hard things.”

Glennon Doyle

Untamed

“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that there was something wrong with me.”

Glennon Doyle

Untamed

“The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one.”

Glennon Doyle

Untamed

“Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right.”

Glennon Doyle

Untamed

“Every truth is a kindness, even if it makes others uncomfortable. Every untruth is an unkindness, even if it makes others comfortable.”

Glennon Doyle

Untamed

“Life is alchemy, and emotions are the fire that turns me to gold.”

Glennon Doyle

Untamed

“Perhaps imagination is not where we go to escape reality but where we go to remember it.”

Glennon Doyle

Untamed

“The key to our transformation is simply this: the better we know ourselves the better equipped we will be to make our choices wisely.”

Gregg Braden

Resilience from the Heart

“There can only be one solution to any problem: a change in attitude and in consciousness.”

Gregg Braden

The Divine Matrix

“We are never more than a belief away from our greatest love, deepest healing, and most profound miracles.”

Gregg Braden

The Spontaneous Healing of Belief

“Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.”

Iyanla Vanzant

In the Meantime

“You are always being prepared for something better or protected from something worse.”

Iyanla Vanzant

In the Meantime

“You cannot hire someone else to do your push-ups for you.”

Jack Canfield

The Success Principles

“In the end, just three things matter: how well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.”

Jack Kornfield

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry

“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.”

James Clear

Atomic Habits

“You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.”

James Clear

Atomic Habits

“A memory without the emotional charge is called wisdom.”

Joe Dispenza

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

“If you want a new outcome, you will have to break the habit of being yourself, and reinvent a new self.”

Joe Dispenza

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

“When you think from your past memories, you can only create past experiences.”

Joe Dispenza

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

“When we truly change our state of being, our bodies can respond to a new mind.”

Joe Dispenza

You Are the Placebo

“All great achievers are given multiple reasons to believe they are failures. But in spite of that they persevere.”

John C. Maxwell

Failing Forward

“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Wherever You Go, There You Are

“I have one major rule: Everybody is right.”

Ken Wilber

The Simple Feeling of Being

“Self-compassion involves acting the same way towards yourself when you are having a difficult time, fail, or notice something you don't like about yourself.”

Kristin Neff

Self-Compassion

“Everyone fails. Highly successful people fail many more times than the rest of the world and with much higher stakes at hand.”

Lewis Howes

The School of Greatness

“Greatness is what remains when that talent and vision meet adversity—and persist in the face of it.”

Lewis Howes

The School of Greatness

“In reality, failure is simply feedback. It's not that you are bad or not good enough or incapable.”

Lewis Howes

The School of Greatness

“Remember, no one has ever achieved anything truly great without going through extreme adversity.”

Lewis Howes

The School of Greatness

“Abundance is not something available for sale or purchase. It's something that we tap into, build, and grow.”

Lisa Nichols

Abundance Now

“Every thought we think is creating our future.”

Louise Hay

You Can Heal Your Life

“You've been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”

Louise Hay

You Can Heal Your Life

“To be a true explorer is to carry on your exploration even if it takes you to a place you didn't particularly plan to go to.”

Lynne McTaggart

The Field

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”

Marianne Williamson

A Return to Love

“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.”

Marianne Williamson

A Return to Love

“Perfectionism at its core isn't about high standards. It's about fear.”

Marie Forleo

Everything Is Figureoutable

“In order to change ourselves, we must first believe we can.”

Marie Forleo

Everything Is Figureoutable

“The fastest way out of our fear is through it.”

Marie Forleo

Everything Is Figureoutable

“All beliefs are a choice and choices can be changed.”

Marie Forleo

Everything Is Figureoutable

“You are 100 percent responsible for your life. Always and in all ways.”

Marie Forleo

Everything Is Figureoutable

“Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships, and accomplishment.”

Martin Seligman

Flourish

“Life is gritty and hard and then suddenly it is brilliant and amazing.”

Mel Robbins

The 5 Second Rule

“A person all wrapped up in themselves makes for a mighty small package.”

Michael Bernard Beckwith

Life Visioning

“Do not let anything that happens in life be important enough that you're willing to close your heart over it.”

Michael Singer

The Untethered Soul

“The only permanent solution to your problems is to go inside and let go of the part of you that seems to have so many problems with reality.”

Michael Singer

The Untethered Soul

“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times. The best moments usually occur if a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen rather than something that happens to us.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.”

Oprah Winfrey

What I Know For Sure

“You must remember that while the canvas of your life is painted with daily experiences, behaviors, reactions, and emotions, you're the one controlling the brush.”

Oprah Winfrey

What I Know For Sure

“When life gets difficult, I've found that the best thing to do is ask myself a simple question: What is this here to teach me?”

Oprah Winfrey

What I Know For Sure

“Whatever you fear most has no power — it is your fear that has the power.”

Oprah Winfrey

What I Know For Sure

“When you don't know what to do, best advice is to do nothing until clarity comes.”

Oprah Winfrey

What I Know For Sure

“Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.”

Pema Chödrön

When Things Fall Apart

“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.”

Pema Chödrön

When Things Fall Apart

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”

Pema Chödrön

When Things Fall Apart

“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.”

Pema Chödrön

When Things Fall Apart

“There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstance of your life can change!”

Rhonda Byrne

The Secret

“I believe that gratitude is one of the few attitudes that can measurably change lives.”

Robert Emmons

Thanks!

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”

Robin Sharma

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

Ryan Holiday

The Obstacle Is the Way

“Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.”

Ryan Holiday

The Obstacle Is the Way

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”

Stephen R. Covey

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Peace Is Every Step

“When you understand, you cannot help but love. You cannot get angry.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Peace Is Every Step

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”

Tim Ferriss

The 4-Hour Workweek

“It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”

Tony Robbins

Awaken the Giant Within

“The past does not equal the future.”

Tony Robbins

Awaken the Giant Within

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”

Tony Robbins

Awaken the Giant Within

“We've progressed as human beings in terms of our physical evolution, but not so much in terms of our mental progression.”

Vishen Lakhiani

The Code of the Extraordinary Mind

“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits.”

Aristotle

Nicomachean Ethics, Book I (trans. W.D. Ross)

“Virtue is a state of character concerned with choice, lying in a mean relative to us, this being determined by reason.”

Aristotle

Nicomachean Ethics, Book II

“Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools.”

Aristotle

Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV

“Man is by nature a political animal.”

Aristotle

Politics, Book I

“Never in this world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love. This is an eternal law.”

Buddha

Dhammapada, Ch. 1, v. 5 (trans. Eknath Easwaran)

“By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one purified. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.”

Buddha

Dhammapada, Ch. 12, v. 165 (trans. Acharya Buddharakkhita)

“All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”

Buddha

Dhammapada, Ch. 20, v. 277 (trans. Acharya Buddharakkhita)

“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book II, Ch. 15 (trans. James Legge)

“At fifteen, I had my mind bent on learning. At thirty, I stood firm. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven. At sixty, my ear was an obedient organ for the reception of truth. At seventy, I could follow what my heart desired, without transgressing what was right.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book II, Ch. 4 (trans. James Legge)

“The mind of the superior man is conversant with righteousness; the mind of the mean man is conversant with gain.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book IV, Ch. 16 (trans. James Legge)

“When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book IV, Ch. 17 (trans. James Legge)

“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practises it will have neighbours.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book IV, Ch. 25 (trans. James Legge)

“When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book VII, Ch. 21 (trans. James Legge)

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”

Epictetus

Discourses

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

Epictetus

Discourses, Book 3.23

“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”

Epictetus

Enchiridion (The Handbook), Ch. 1

“Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.”

Epictetus

Enchiridion (The Handbook), Ch. 5 (trans. Elizabeth Carter)

“Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.”

Epicurus

Letter to Menoeceus

“It is not possible to live pleasantly without living prudently and honorably and justly.”

Epicurus

Principal Doctrines, V

“Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life, far the greatest is the possession of friendship.”

Epicurus

Principal Doctrines, XXVII

“When the Master governs, the people are hardly aware that he exists. When his work is done, the people say, 'Amazing: we did it, all by ourselves!'”

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 17 (trans. Stephen Mitchell)

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 33 (trans. Stephen Mitchell)

“A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet.”

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 64 (trans. Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English)

“The stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.”

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 76 (trans. Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English)

“The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao.”

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 8 (trans. Stephen Mitchell)

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 10.16 (trans. Gregory Hays)

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 11.18

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 6.6

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

Rumi

The Essential Rumi (Coleman Barks interpretation, not a literal translation)

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.”

Rumi

The Essential Rumi, "A Great Wagon" (Coleman Barks interpretation, not a literal translation)

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

Seneca

Letters from a Stoic (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter 13

“No man was ever wise by chance.”

Seneca

Letters from a Stoic, Letter 76

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

Seneca

Letters from a Stoic, Letter 77

“The best cure for anger is delay.”

Seneca

On Anger (De Ira)

“It's never them; it's always you.”

Matthew Ferry

Calm, Clarity, and Confidence

“Opinions are the source of suffering.”

Matthew Ferry

Calm, Clarity, and Confidence

“Failure is just learning. It's just a perspective. Failure is the first part of learning and the process you go through to figure things out.”

Matthew Ferry

Quiet Mind Epic Life

“When your mind is free from the distractions created by resistance, you are free to create your dream life.”

Matthew Ferry

Quiet Mind Epic Life

“Enlightenment is the recognition that the source of life within you is also the source of life in everyone and everything else. We are all one thing expressing itself with infinite variety.”

Matthew Ferry

Quiet Mind Epic Life