"A person's life is what their thoughts make it."
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"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence."
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"Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE."
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"The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception."
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"Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to accept whatever nature sends you. To live in this way is not to fear death, but to hold it in contempt. Death is only a thing of terror for those unable to live in the present. Pass on your way, then, with a smiling face, under the smile of him who bids you go"
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"Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought."
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"Look deeply. Don't miss the inherent quality and value of everything."
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"Do not be ashamed of help."
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"When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living."
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"Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be."
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"Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole."
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"If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this."
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"No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature."
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"Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?"
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"For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason."
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"For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?"
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"Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself."
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"No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose."
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"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."
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"Misfortune nobly born is good fortune."
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