Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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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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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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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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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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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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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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Think 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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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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