Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.