The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.
While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.
Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."