Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive.

Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong people.

-- Seneca

Endure and renounce.

-- Epictetus

Bodily pain does not last without limit; intense pain is brief in duration.

-- Epicurus

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

-- Laozi

You are not a fish — how do you know the fish's pleasure?

-- Zhuang Zhou

Those who fully develop their mind know their nature. Knowing their nature, they know Heaven.

-- Mencius