People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

We are the other of the other