What we desire makes us vulnerable. - Ryan Holiday

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The Greeks had a word for this: apatheia. It's the kind of calm equanimity that comes with the absence of irrational or extreme emotions. Not the loss of feeling altogether, just the loss of the harmful, unhelpful kind. Don't let the negativity in, don't let those emotions even get started. Just say: No, thank you. I can't afford to panic.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.