The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

What we do in life ripples in eternity.

Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal - if he's living a normal life. And if it's normal, how can it be bad?

Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.