‘And you are not happy,’ said Mr Parker Pyne in a cheerful, matter-of-fact voice. ‘Very few people are. You would really be surprised if you knew how few people are happy.’
“Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or is uncertain. Brief is man's life and small the nook of the earth where he lives; brief, too, is the longest posthumous fame, buoyed only by a succession of poor human beings who will very soon die and who know little of themselves, much less of someone who died long ago.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”
― The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
― The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Receive without conceit, release without struggle.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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