Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

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.

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.