Everything turns on your assumptions about it, and that's on you. You can pluck out the hasty judgment at will, and like steering a ship around the point, you will find calm seas, fair weather and a safe port.

Marcus Aurelius

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You want to live - but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying - and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful — more free of interruptions — than your own soul.

Marcus Aurelius

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

One who asks fearfully teaches us to say no.

Accepting the inevitable is the beginning of strength and freedom. Embrace all chaos that is out of your control. This is how it is. Why should it be otherwise?

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It is not external events themselves that cause us distress, but the way in which we think about them... It is our attitudes and reactions that give us trouble. We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

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