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

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.

There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

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

It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.