All conditioned things are subject to decay; strive on with diligence

All conditioned things are impermanent

Be lamps unto yourselves; take refuge in yourselves, with no other refuge

Vigilance is the path to the deathless; heedlessness is the path of death

Everything depends on your judgment, and that judgment rests with you.

-- Marcus Aurelius

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

-- Hypatia

It is not I who conform to the stars; the stars conform to me.

-- Plotinus

Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only a borrowed plumage.

-- D. T. Suzuki

Others are others, I am I — regardless, I walk the path I walk.

-- Kitarō Nishida

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

-- Dōgen