How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
MARCUS AURELIUSThink of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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Do not be ashamed of help.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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