Stockdale on Stoicism 10

To a Stoic, bad luck is your fault; you've become addicted to externals. Epictetus: 

"What are tragedies, but the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have admired things external?" 

Not even God will intercede in your decisions. Epictetus:

"God gives you attributes, like magnanimity, courage, and endurance, to enable you to bear whatever happens. These are given free of all restraint, compulsion, or hindrance; He has put the whole matter under your control without reserving even for Himself any power to prevent or hinder."

As I have said, your deliverance and your destruction are 100 percent up to you.

—from James B. Stockdale, The Stoic Warrior's Triad