So there is the comforting thing about extremities of pain: if you feel it too much you are bound to stop feeling it.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Blame is not for failure. It is for failing to help or ask for help.

Failure is nothing more than learning how to win.

There’s meaning in every failure. Find it.

It is our own opinions that disturb us. Take away these opinions then, and resolve to dismiss your judgment about an act as if it were something grievous, and your anger is gone.

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

A man must learn a great deal to enable him to pass a correct judgment on another man’s acts.

It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.

With what are you discontented? With the badness of men? Recall to your mind this conclusion, that rational animals exist for one another, and that to endure is a part of justice, and that men do wrong involuntarily.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, immediately turn to yourself and reflect in what manner you yourself have erred: for example, in thinking that money is a good thing or pleasure, or a bit of reputation, and the like.

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?

You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves.

If they’ve injured you, then they’re the ones who suffer for it. But have they?

I’ve come to realize that all my past failures and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understanding that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

I do what is mine to do; the rest doesn’t disturb me. The rest is inanimate, or has no logos, or it wanders at random and has lost the road.

Let it happen, if it wants, to whatever it can happen to. And what’s affected can complain about it if it wants. It doesn’t hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.

To live in peace, immune to all compulsion. Let them scream whatever they want.

Consider that you also do many things wrong, and that you are a man like others; and even if you do abstain from certain faults, still you have the disposition to commit them, though either through cowardice, or concern about reputation, or some such mean motive, you abstain from such faults.

No time for reading. For controlling your arrogance, yes. For overcoming pain and pleasure, yes. For outgrowing ambition, yes. For not feeling anger at stupid and unpleasant people – even for caring about them – for that, yes.

To be angry at something means you’ve forgotten: That everything that happens is natural. That the responsibility is theirs, not yours.

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their minds.

How trivial the things we want so passionately are.

Discard your misperceptions. Stop being jerked like a puppet. Limit yourself to the present.

Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter.

You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. 

With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

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.

In a little while you will have forgotten everything; in a little while everything will have forgotten you.

Now it is in my power to let no badness be in this soul, nor desire nor any perturbation at all; but looking at all things, I see their true nature, and I use each according to its value.

Take me and cast me where you will; for there I shall keep my divine part tranquil, that is, content, if it can feel and act conformably to its proper constitution.

How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man! For it is very soon swallowed up in the eternal. And how small a part of the whole substance! And how small a part of the universal soul! And on what a small clod of the whole earth you creep!

Say to yourself each time, ‘He did what he believed was right.’ (When someone does something you don’t like)

Whenever anyone criticizes or wrongs you, remember that they are only doing or saying what they think is right. They cannot be guided by your views, only their own; so if their views are wrong, they are the ones who suffer insofar as they are misguided.

Constantly and, if it be possible, on the occasion of every impression on the soul, apply to it the principles of physics, ethics, and dialectics (logic).

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealousand surely… None of them can hurt me. Don’t waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people… It will keep you from doing anything useful. Why do you not rather act than complain?

The trick is to take advantage of the particular details of the mess you’ve made, so that your next attempt will be informed by it and not just another blind stab in the dark. t

"You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it."

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.

To fail is to give up. But you are in the midst of a moving process. Nothing fails then. All goes on. Work is done. If good, you learn from it. If bad, you learn even more.

Mistakes aren’t a necessary evil. They aren’t evil at all. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new (and, as such, should be seen as valuable; without them, we’d have no originality).

If you aren’t experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

The attempt to avoid failure makes failure more likely.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

There are no failures, just experiences and your reactions to them.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. Richard Branson