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"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away."
"Confine yourself to the present."
"Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last."
"Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been."
"Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning."
"Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?"
"Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy."
"A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination."
"The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid."
"Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil."
"Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain."
"Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise."
"Each day provides its own gifts."
"It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to."
"This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate."
"Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it."
"Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just."
"When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely."
"To expect an impossibility is madness."
"Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them."