You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

God give me patience, to reconcile with what I am not able to changeGive me strength to change what I canAnd give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

If thou workest at that which is before thee ... Expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.