You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
MARCUS AURELIUSIt is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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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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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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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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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
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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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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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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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Life is opinion.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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