"Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well."

"What, then, is the fruit of these doctrines? It is the same as that of a vine: leaves, then a blossom, then a ripe cluster. So here, first an appearance, then an impulse, then an act. And the fruit is…"

"It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which determines how we will act."

"If you want to live a life free from trouble, you must train your mind to be indifferent to external things."

"You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for in order to refer your self-improvement to him? You are …"