“Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things.”
“I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying to analyse the motives of people who have no personal interest in us, in the vain hope of finding that perhaps they may have just a little after all.”
“The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.”
“Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.”
“Oh, I'm good. Seriously, after all these years, you'd think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it.”
“To hope until hope creates from its very own wreck the thing it contemplates.”