Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not; which risks are worth the cost and which are not. Even the most confusing or hurtful aspects of life can be made more tolerable by clear seeing and by choice.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?