"Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? How can any action be …"

"Do not disturb yourself by picturing your entire life. Do not let your thoughts range over all the various troubles which you have met and will meet, but in every present case, ask yourself, 'What is …"

"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think."

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in that it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall."