If you are distressed by anything, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it.
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Stop allowing your mind to be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulses, to kick against fate and the present, and to mistrust the future.
A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live according to nature.
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.
Give full attention and devotion to each act.
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Disgraceful: for the soul to give up when the body is still going strong.
Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.
You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.
