The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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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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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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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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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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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
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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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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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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 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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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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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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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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