Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.