The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way become the way.

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Choose not to be harmed – and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed – and you haven’t been.

Blessings and burdens are not mutually exclusive. It’s a lot more complicated. Socrates had a mean, nagging wife; he always said that being married to her was good practice for philosophy.

We Don’t control the barriers or the people who put them there. But we control ourselves – and that is sufficient. The true threat to determination, then, is not what happens to us, but us ourselves. Why would you be your own worst enemy? Hold on and hold steady.

First, see clearly. Next, act correctly. Finally, endure and accept the world as it is.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school… it is to subtle some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.