You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
MARCUS AURELIUSAdapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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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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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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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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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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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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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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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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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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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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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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