It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens
When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.
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.
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.
When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.