Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.

...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.

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?

Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.