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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. "
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations
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. "
6 " Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life. "
7 " The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. "
8 " Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it. "
9 " Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. "
10 " 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. "
11 " 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. "
12 " Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one. "
13 " Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs? "
14 " Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power. "
15 " Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them. "
16 " The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. "
17 " 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. "
18 " Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too. "
19 " 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. "
20 " All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion. "
