Day by day
- Day 015On a claim made from a sickbed“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
- Day 014On not assembling the whole thing“Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future.”
- Day 013On the thing already known“To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.”
- Day 012On living against the grain of sense“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
- Day 011On what was already given“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
- Day 010On the harder of the two knowledges“Knowing others is wisdom; knowing yourself is enlightenment.”
- Day 009On living the questions“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.”
- Day 008On the life frittered away by detail“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
- Day 007On the room kept at the back“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
- Day 006On the hours that were never short“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.”