“The last freedom is the freedom to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.”— Anna Akhmatova
“To be a real man is to be unattached—not to be hustled by things, not to be owned by them, not to be afraid of them.”— James Truslow Adams
“Control what you can control. I can control my emotions, my concentration, my effort, my intensity.”— Andre Agassi
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”— Marcus Aurelius
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”— Marcus Aurelius
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.”— Boethius
“There’s no such thing as a problem. There are only situations. It’s all in how you look at it.”— Denis Johnson
“What else are tragedies but the ordeals of people who have come to value externals, tricked out in tragic verse?”— Arrian
“So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan... approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”— William Cullen Bryant