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

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

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

-- Marcus Aurelius

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

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

-- Phil Knight