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

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

Never depend on the admiration of others for self-satisfaction. It is a fact of life that other people, even people who love you, will not necessarily agree with your ideas, understand you always, or share your enthusiasms.

When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't say be bathes poorly, but quickly. Name the situation as it is, don't filter it through your judgments. Give your assent only to that which is actually true.