It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
MARCUS AURELIUSWhat we do now echoes in eternity.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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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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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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Do not be ashamed of help.
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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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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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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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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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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
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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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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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