If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other

No great thing is created suddenly.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.