Serenity

Neither the nature nor the amount of our work is accountable for the frequency and severity of our breakdowns, but their cause lies rather in those absurd feelings of hurry and having no time, in that breathlessness and tension, that anxiety of feature and that solicitude of results, that lack of inner harmony and ease, in short, by which the work with us us apt to be accompanied, and from which a European who would do the same work would, nine out of ten times, be free.

--William James, Jew

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. --Carlyle