A person's life is what their thoughts make it.

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.