Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
MARCUS AURELIUSIt never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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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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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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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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When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
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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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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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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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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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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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