“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The will to live is not the will to live at any cost; it is the will to live this life.” — Nassim Taleb · Paraphrased from Stoic philosophy
“A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.” — Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” — Epictetus · Fragments
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.” — Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.” — Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book IX
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” — Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book VII