"Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself."

~Epictetus

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

~Viktor E. Frankl

"I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land."

~Seneca

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

~ Buddha

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

~Søren Kierkegaard

"It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortunes; of one entering upon instruction, to reproach himself; and of one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others or himself."

~Epictetus

"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."

~Seneca

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful."

~Gautama Buddha

“Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time. The twining strands of fate wove both of them together: your own existence and the things that happen to you.”

~Marcus Aurelius

"Take a lyre player: he’s relaxed when he performs alone, but put him in front of an audience, and it’s a different story, no matter how beautiful his voice or how well he plays the instrument. Why? Because he not only wants to perform well, he wants to be well received — and the latter lies outside his control."

~Epictetus