Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does.

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.