There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control. Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But you are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn't be affected by an incident unless you let it.

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

Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.

Desire and happiness cannot live together.