It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Marcus Aurelius
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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, 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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“What are you afraid of losing, when nothing in the world actually belongs to you.” Marcus Aurelius
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“To love someone else is easy, but to love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing red-hot iron: it burns into you and that is very painful. Therefore, to love somebody else in the first place is always an escape which we all hope for, and we all enjoy it when we are capable of it. But in the long run, it comes back on us. You cannot stay away from yourself forever, you have to return, have to come to that experiment, to know whether you really can love. That is the question-whether you can love yourself, and that will be the test.” Carl Jung
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“Pass through this brief patch of time in harmony with nature, and come to your final resting place
gracefully , just as a ripened olive might drop, praising the earth that nourished it and grateful to
the tree that gave it growth.
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“All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment;
action for the common good in the present moment;
and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way .
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MARCUS AURELIUS,
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“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which arm you against the present."
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“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly."
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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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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." Marcus Aurelius
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“Choose not to be harmed—and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed—and you haven't been." Marcus Aurelius
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