The task of building a good habit is like cultivating a delicate flower one day at a time. Atomic Habits

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth. The Enchiridion

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself. The Enchiridion

“Time has two sides. Its length is determined by the sun’s course, and its depth is determined by passions.” Samarkand