When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.

Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.