“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.”
“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.”
“Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.”
“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.”
“Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.”
“Never say of anything that I've lost it, only that I've given it back.”
“Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.”
“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.”