Study me as much as you like, you will never know me. For I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be.

Rumi

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

The wise man is neither raised up by prosperity nor cast down by adversity; for always he has striven to rely predominantly on himself, and to derive all joy from himself.

Seneca

Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.

Deepak Chopra

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Jorge Luis Borges

Ceasing to do evil, cultivating the good, purifying the heart: this is the teaching of the Buddhas.

Buddha