Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.