The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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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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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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It 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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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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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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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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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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