It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.

Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the other goods as well.

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not that which he thinks and says and does.

Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.

We are born for cooperation

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.