Wiser:Stronger:Better ⚓

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

"When I see an anxious person, I ask myself, what do they want? For if a person wasn't wanting something outside of their own control, why would they be stricken by anxiety?"

"We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating. How often has the expected never come to pass."

“It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”

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

"Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too."

When life is tough on you “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”

"I will do nothing because of public opinion, but everything because of conscience."

"Everything hangs on one's thinking. A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is."

"What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him."

"The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do."

“Remember how long you’ve been putting this off, how many extensions the gods gave you, and you didn’t use them. At some point you have to recognize what the world it is that you belong to; what power rules it and from what source you spring; that there is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don’t use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.”

"You can tell the character of every man when you see how he gives and receives praise."

"To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the rage of the sea falls still around it."

“In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.”

"Let us prepare our minds as if we'd come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life's books each day... The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time."

“Control your perceptions. Direct your actions properly. Willingly accept what’s outside your control.”