My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.