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#1

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

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#2

“We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.”
― Philip James Bailey, Festus: A Poem

tags: life, nobility

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#3

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought

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#4

“If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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#5

“All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: patience, tolerance

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#6

“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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#7

“It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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#8

“Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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#9

“Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: thankfulness

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#10

“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.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: fate, love, people

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#11

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: attitude, inspirational, life

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#12

“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”
― Marcus Aurelius

tags: be-good, goodness, morality

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#13

“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: comparison, gossip, inspirational, integrity

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#14

“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: inner-strength, self-confidence, self-contentment

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#15

“For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, retire, self, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude

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#16

“To be is to do - Socrates

To do is to be - Sartre

Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humor

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