Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.

Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth.

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.