Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.
EpictetusIf I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.
EpictetusWe must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.
Epictetus