Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...

Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave.

Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And that, too, when all things are so distinguished and yet intermingled and sympathetic.

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?