It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not; which risks are worth the cost and which are not. Even the most confusing or hurtful aspects of life can be made more tolerable by clear seeing and by choice.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.