It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.

Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.

... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.