wisdom

Stick with your purpose. Do not seek external approval. Do not worry about anything outside of your control. The only things you command are your thoughts and actions. We choose our response.
-Epictetus

No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.
-Marcus Aurelius

When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
-Seneca

Freedom and happiness come from understanding – and working with – our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery.
-Epictetus

Give yourself a gift: the present moment.
-Marcus Aurelius

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.
-Marcus Aurelius

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life — in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
-Seneca

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
-Epictetus

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
-Marcus Aurelius