If I Was A Nightingale I Would

Difficulties Are Things That Show A Person What They Are.

We All Dread A Bodily Paralysis, And Would Make Use Of Every Contrivance To Avoid It; But None Of Us Is Troubled About A Paralysis Of The Soul.

We Cannot Choose Our External Circumstances, But We Can Always Choose How We Respond To Them.

It Is Not So Much What Happens To You As How You Think About What Happens." Epictetus

When Men Are Unhappy, They Do Not Imagine They Can Ever Cease To Be So; And When Some Calamity Has Fallen On Them, They Do Not See How They Can Get Rid Of It. Nevertheless, Both Arrive; And The Gods Have Ordered It So, In The End Men Seek It From The Gods