“Choose not to be harmed — and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed — and you haven’t been.”

Too many of us listen too much to what others say and think. In our endless quest to please the people in our lives, we become the product of what others want.

As Epictetus once said, we must be the same person in every situation: “Decide first what type of person you want to be and stick to it. Be the same person whether you are by yourself or with others.”

“Remember that our efforts are subject to circumstances; you weren’t aiming to do the impossible.”

you instead start looking at life as a journey that could lead you anywhere, you go about everything differently. You’ll say, “Let’s see what happens.” And as a Stoic, whatever happens, is fine. So life will be fine.

Epictetus said we should think of all the things in life as a hotel stay. You just don’t know exactly when it’s time to check out. So never forget to enjoy your stay.

There’s no need to change anything to find inner peace. It’s right there where you are. You just have to change your mindset to see it.

“We will train both soul and body when we accustom ourselves to cold, heat, thirst, hunger, scarcity of food, hardness of bed, abstaining from pleasures, and enduring pains.”

The truth is we need to do hard things, to maintain equilibrium.