Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
MARCUS AURELIUSNo one can lose either the past or the future.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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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 impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
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