Our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUSNever esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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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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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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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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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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Confine yourself to the present.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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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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Life is opinion.
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say 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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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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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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