“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.”

“So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.”

“Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?”

“No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.”

“Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

“It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.”