Confine yourself to the present.
MARCUS AURELIUSAll 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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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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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 ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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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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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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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 things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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