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

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not".

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

Anger cannot be dishonest.