Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

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?

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.