And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.