To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

Desire and happiness cannot live together.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Freedom isn't the right or ability to do whatever you please. Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the inherent limits set in place by nature. By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, you become truly free.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.