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Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.

Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.

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Life, Expression, Life Is

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

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Inspirational, Life, Change
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

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Life, Art, Philosophical
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), George Maximilian Anthony Grube (1963). “The meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

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Revenge, Anger, Aggressors
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1906). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

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Action, Life Yourself
Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.219, Modern Library

Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

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Happy Life, Mind, Littles
Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.42, Lulu.com

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

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Motivational, Inspirational Running, Track

Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you.

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Mind, Criticism, Goes On
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.46, Modern Library

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

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Men, Endurance, Endure

The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level.

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Fire, Use, Fuel

Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.

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Character, Tasks

A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination.

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Life, Color, Imagination

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 ... then make that day count!

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Thinking, Breathe, Enjoy
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free". Book by Steve Maraboli, p. 144, 2010.

Because other people are fools, must you be so too?

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People, Fool
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.239

A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not that which he thinks and says and does.

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Lying, Greatness, Men

When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.

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Hate, Voice, People
Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.138, Penguin UK

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

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Life, Past, Men
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (10), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind.

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Encouragement, Thinking, People
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.80, Modern Library

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

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Men, Problem, Despise

Each day provides its own gifts.

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Life, Gratitude, Philosophical

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

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Causes, Consequence

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

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Practice, People, Mind
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.81, Modern Library

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

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Assessment, Problem, Erase
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.110, Modern Library

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

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Character, Soul, Mind
Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.84, Penguin UK

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.

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Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

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