What is up to you

Your judgments, intentions and actions are yours. Reputation, weather, other people and outcomes are not. Peace comes from spending effort only in the first column.

Impressions are not facts

Between an event and your suffering sits an opinion. Catch the opinion as it forms and you can decline to assent to it.

The obstacle is material

Difficulty is the occasion for the virtue you claim to want. Patience needs delay; courage needs fear.