External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not that which he thinks and says and does.

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.