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Marco Aurelius

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• "Remain indifferent to pain. It cannot hurt you unless you let it."
• "Choose not to be harmed, and you will not feel harmed."
• "Learn to be indifferent to things that are indifferent."
• "If you suffer because of external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your judgment about them."
• "When you rise in the morning, think of the precious privilege of being alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
• "Every day seek beauty, and it will reveal itself."
• "Kindness is invincible."
• "Do not live as if you were to live forever. Death hangs over you."
• "Things do not touch the soul, but remain outside of it, and disturbance comes only from internal opinion."
• "If you are disturbed by something external, it is not that which is troubling you, but your own judgment about it."
• "Think of what you have instead of thinking about what you lack."
• "Wisdom is never a certainty, it is a constant search."
• "Nothing has so much power to expand the mind as the ability to systematically and truly investigate all that is observable in life."
• "Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back."
• "The best revenge is to become different from what he is who caused the offense."
• "Everything is just opinion and opinion can be overcome."
• "He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."
• "The crowd is not wise simply because it is a crowd."
• "Each day is a new opportunity to start over."
• "Each day is a new opportunity to start over."
• "Think about how brief your existence is and how the world existed before you and will continue to exist after you."
• "The obstacle is the path."
• "It is not death that a man should fear, but never starting to live."