The Sailor's Guidebook

  • If it is humanly possible, you can do it too.

    Marcus Aurelius

  • Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

    Seneca

  • You could leave life right now, let that determine what you do and say and think.

    Marcus Aurelius

  • It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it.

    Seneca

  • It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

    Marcus Aurelius

  • The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

    Zeno

  • First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

    Epictetus

  • Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.

    Zeno

  • Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

    Marcus Aurelius

  • Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

    Zeno

  • The impediment to action advances action - what stands in the way becomes the way

    Marcus Aurelius

  • Let all your efforts be directed to something, let it keep that end in view.

    Seneca

  • As each day arises, welcome it as the very best of all, and make it your own possession. We must seize what flees.

    Seneca

  • Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

    Epictetus

  • If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favourable.

    Seneca