External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.
Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Live each day as if it be your last.
Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.