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

With ills unending strives the putter off.

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

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?

What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.