I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?

Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.

...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one you have, and there will be no other life after it. So the longest and the shortest lives are the same. The present moment is shared by all living creatures, but the time that is past is gone forever. No one can lose the past or the future, for if they don't belong to you, how can they be taken from you?