Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park… It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself… That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

Recommended reading: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

Recommended reading: Isocrates and Civic Education.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Recommended reading: The Ethics Of Ambiguity.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order… the continuous thread of revelation.

Recommended reading: The Optimist’s Daughter.

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments – an inability to accept life as ongoing.

Recommended reading: Ongoingness: The End of a Diary.

As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better.

Recommended reading: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience.

You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours.

Recommended reading: Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much.

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

Recommended reading: The Five People You Meet in Heaven.

Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade, and yet the menace of the years finds, and shall find, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Recommended reading: Poems By William Ernest Henley.

Enlightenment – full enlightenment – is perceiving reality with an open, unfixated mind, even in the most difficult circumstances. It’s nothing more than that, actually.

Recommended reading: The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times.