Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

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

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.

The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.

No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.

Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.