"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person." – Seneca
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." – Epictetus
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." – Marcus Aurelius
"Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders' ignorance of what is good or evil." – Marcus Aurelius
"The greater part of progress is the desire to progress." – Seneca
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." – Marcus Aurelius
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." – Marcus Aurelius
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." – Epictetus
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." – Seneca
"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens." – Epictetus, Discourses
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." – Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
