People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal - if he's living a normal life. And if it's normal, how can it be bad?

A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.

You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.