“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.”
“Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.”
“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
“Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.”
“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do not wish to have, or avoid, things that other people control, because then you must serve as their slave.”
“Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.”
“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.”
“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”
“We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.”
“Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.”