You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing.

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

At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Consider the bigger picture.....think things through and fully commit!