“Well then, remember to take those little vacations into yourself. Whatever you do, don’t be troubled or anxious, but be free, and look at things like a man, a human being, a citizen, a part of the creation that must die. Chief among the thoughts close at hand, keep these two: first, that nothing outside the mind can disturb it – trouble comes from the mind’s opinion of what lies outside it; and second, that everything you now see will change in a moment and soon be no more. Can you even begin to count the changes you have already witnessed?
This world is change; this life, opinion.”
Marcus Aurelius
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“Or are you tormented by what others may think of you? Look then on how soon everything is forgotten, and gaze into the abyss of infinite time. Hear the hollowness of the applause, and ponder the fickleness of those who are applauding you while you consider the narrowness of the stage on which you pant after their plaudits. The entire earth is but a piece of dust blowing through the firmament, and the inhabited part of the earth a small fraction thereof. So, in such a grand space, how many do you think will think of you, and what will their thoughts be worth?”
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“Everyone dreams of the perfect vacation – in the country, by the sea, or in the mountains. You too long to get away and find that idyllic spot, yet how foolish… when at any time you are capable of finding that perfect vacation in yourself.
Nowhere is there a more idyllic spot, a vacation home more private and peaceful, that in one’s own mind, especially when it is furnished in such a way that the merest inward glance induces ease.
Take this vacation as often as you like, and so charge your spirit. But do not prolong these meditative moments beyond what is necessary to send you back to your life free of anxiety and full of vigor and good cheer.
What makes you anxious anyway? The wrongs of others? Well, consider the following: reasonable men and women are made for one another; patience is a part of justice; and no one willingly does wrong.”
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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
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“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
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“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
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“He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man’s acts.”
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“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
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“Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.”
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“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
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“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”
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“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
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“Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.”
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“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
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“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.”
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“Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.”
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“Men exist for the sake of one another.”
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“The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.”
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“A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.”
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“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
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