Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

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