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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

“Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist