People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.