The first step: Don't be anxious. Nature controls it all.

Marcus Aurelius

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No human thing is of serious importance.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Looking deeper, we could say that the real cause of suffering is not being able to tolerate uncertainty—and thinking that it's perfectly sane, perfectly normal, to deny the fundamental groundlessness of being human.

And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping point. that is the determination of the exalted in might, the knowing.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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