Stoicism doesn’t mean repressing emotion and shunning pleasure, I learned, but, in essence, focusing on what is within our power and letting go of ev… - Epictetus

I cannot stay in harmony if I let myself become upset by things beyond my control.

But God has introduced man to be a spectator of God and of his works; and not only a spectator of them, but an interpreter. For this reason it is shameful for man to begin and to end where irrational animals do; but rather he ought to begin where they begin, and to end where nature ends in us; and nature ends in contemplation and understanding, and in a way of life conformable to nature. Take care then not to die without having been spectators of these things.

"Nothing can truly be taken from us. There is nothing to lose. Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, "I have lost it" and instead say, "It has been returned to where it came from." [...] The important thing is to take great care with what you have while the world lets you have it."