If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?

The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens.

Get rid of the judgement ... get rid of the 'I am hurt,' you are rid of the hurt itself.

It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.

Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.