Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude.
EpictetusDon't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
EpictetusNothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit
Epictetus