It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
MARCUS AURELIUSHow ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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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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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 best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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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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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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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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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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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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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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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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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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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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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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