Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

• Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
• Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
• Our life is what our thoughts make it.
• The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
• Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
• The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
• Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
• When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
• 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.