As long as man has been alive, he has been collecting little sayings about how to live.
Below are some wonderful epigrams that span some 21 centuries and 3 continents. Each one is worth remembering, having queued in your brain for one of life’s crossroads or to drop at the perfect moment in conversation. Each will change and evolve with you as you evolve (Heraclitus: “No man steps in the same river twice”) and yet each will remain strong and unyielding no matter how much you may one day try to wiggle out and away from them.
Fundamentally, each one will teach you how to be a better person. If you let them.
“We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” — Epictetus
“Time and patience are the strongest warriors.” — Leo Tolstoy
“To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.” — Winston Churchill
“You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out.” — Warren Buffett
“Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.” — Zeno
“Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.” — Epicurus
“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” — Marcus
“Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is good in everything, if only we look for it.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder