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Book cover for The Meditations (Stoic Philosophy #2)

The Meditations (Stoic Philosophy #2) by Marcus Aurelius

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Don’t imagine that something is good for you if, in pursuing it, you must break a promise, harm anyone else, lose self-respect, act hypocritically, or hide in shame. Follow the light within—it will not lead you astray. Those who follow the ...more

Guts’s Quotes

“The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple and scarlet.”
― Washington Irving, Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

tags: autumn, sleepy-hollow

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“I call back my light, and I call back my power. I call back my ability to see through my fear and remember why I’m here.”
― Jodi Livon

tags: higher-self, inspirational, light, the-happy-medium, the-intuitive-coach, truth, wisdom

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“The journey of a leaf doesn’t end in its escape. Leaves dance on the wind, swirling and spinning, greeting the ground tenderly. They entertain us by crunching beneath our feet. In time, they’ll break down and make the soil more fertile. Similarly, things we release find new value. They nourish what will be grown in the future.”
― Ahriana Platten, Ph.D

tags: fall-quotes, leaves, release, releasing

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“Death comes but once,
Life comes every day.
Now tell me what's braver,
Spirit of life or fear of death!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

tags: death, fear-of-death, good-life, life, life-lessons, life-poem, live-life-to-the-fullest, living

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“But as long as we all practice kindness wherever we go and don’t stop to wonder at this a so marvellous and stunning world our very existence won’t have been wasted. Not in the slightest! So let’s have a lovely drink, hug each other and cry at the sight of the beautiful sunset that we are about to witness! And then go home, get some sleep and do it all over again!”
― Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering

tags: beauty-of-life, cry, existentialism, hug, kindness, sunset, witness

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