Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

Seneca

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The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control.

No state is so bitter than a calm mind cannot find in it some consolation.

Anxiety contaminates the present with the pains of all imaginable futures. We cannot experience the fullness of the moment if we are forever suffering from hypothetical hardships.

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You will be attacked for doing the right thing. Do it anyway.

The Stoic Emperor

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

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