Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.