The thing itself is neither good nor bad: a device of wood and metal, made to pass an idle hour. If it be without plays, it has not wronged you. It is you who add the judgment, and you who are vexed by your own addition.

Consider how quickly the mind makes a tyrant of a small want. It demands that the world amuse it at once, and calls delay an injury. Yet what is delay, but time returned to you? And what is time, but the one coin you are forever spending?

Therefore receive the emptiness as you would receive a quiet room. Use it. Be content to govern yourself. If games come, take them as one takes weather, without clinging. If they come not, you have still what matters: the power to choose your conduct, and to keep your ruling part untroubled."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839009&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49699995)