Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. – Marcus Aurelius
Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together, and do so with all your heart. – Marcus Aurelius
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Natures delight. – Marcus Aurelius
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. – Marcus Aurelius
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. – Henry David Thoreau