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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
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“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
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