If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius
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  1. Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

  2. Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

  3. When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

  4. Our life is what our thoughts make it.

  5. The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

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