“True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.”

what a line

"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself."

“No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.”

“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.”

“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”

Love this from Seneca: “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

"What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca