What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous — even death is terrible only if we fear it
No great thing is created suddenly
….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well
We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: ‘I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.’ When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods
Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat
A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope