On what is yours to govern
“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
The day brings a hundred things you did not choose: the weather, the traffic, a stranger's mood, the news. Marcus Aurelius — a man who ruled an empire and still controlled almost none of it — reduces all of it to a single division.
One thing stays in your hands: what you do with what arrives. This is not a consolation but a lever. Attention spent on what you cannot change is attention taken from what you can.