Immediately prescribe some character and form of conduce to yourself, which you may keep both alone and in company. - Epictetus

It is for you to arrange your priorities; but whatever you decide to do, don’t do it resentfully, as if you were being imposed on.

Friends, wait for God. When He gives the signal, and releases you from this service, then depart to Him. But for the present, endure to dwell in the place wherein He has assigned you your post. Short indeed is the time of your habitation, and easy to those that are thus minded. What tyrant, what robber, what tribunals have any terrors for those who thus esteem the body and all that belong to it as of no account?

Do you realize that you are awake?’ ‘No, any more than when I dream and have the impression that I am awake.’ ‘And is the one impression in no way different from the other?’ ‘No.