Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

- Paulo Coelho

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

- Dale Carnegie

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

- Roy T. Bennett

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

- Kurt Vonnegut

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

- Marcus Aurelius

Be careful what you tolerate. You are teaching people how to treat you.

- Anonymous

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.

- Marcus Aurelius

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

- Marcus Aurelius

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

- Marcus Aurelius

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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.

- Marcus Aurelius

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love

- Marcus Aurelius

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

Keeping company with the wicked is like living in a fish market: one becomes used to the foul odor.

- Chinese Proverbs

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

- Marcus Aurelius

Courtesy is the mark of a civilized person

- Chinese Proverbs

Follow the good and learn their ways.

- Chinese Proverbs

Kindness is the best quality of the soul

- Chinese Proverbs

Each person equals a grain of sand, but an army is like a block of gold.

- Chinese Proverbs