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

Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?

Live each day as if it be your last.

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

All is as thinking makes it so