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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
― Seneca

“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ”
― Epictetus

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
― Epictetus

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
― Confucius

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
― Maria Robinson

“Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.”
― Anthony J D Angelo

“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Never depend on the admiration of others. There is no strength in it. Personal merit cannot be derived from an external source. It is not to be found in your personal associations, nor can it be found in the regard of other people. It is a fact of life that other people, even people who love you, will not necessarily agree with your ideas, understand you, or share your enthusiasms. Grow up! Who cares what other people think about you!”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives to them.”
― Epictetus

“Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”
― Epictetus

“Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.”
― Epictetus

“Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.”
― Lao Tzu

“a man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season.-”
― Marcus Aurelius, Stoic Six Pack (Illustrated): Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”
― Plato

“If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.”
― Socrates

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
― Pablo Picasso

“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”
― Isaac Newton

“You’re going to be all right. You just stumbled over a stone in the road. It means nothing. Your goal lies far beyond this. Doesn’t it? I’m sure you’ll overcome this. You’ll walk again… soon.' – Guts”
― Kentaro Miura