The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
MARCUS AURELIUSAccept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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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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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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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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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
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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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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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