become aware of the fact that I needed amendment and training for my character;
“calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of love. These things cannot be bought. They must be earned.”
― The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
― The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
“self-reliance and an unequivocal determination not to leave anything to chance;”
― Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius
― Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius
“Every man carries Two Bags about with him, one in front and one behind, and both are packed full of faults. The Bag in front contains his neighbours’ faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.”
― Aesop's Fables
― Aesop's Fables
“Call to mind how long you deffer these things, and how many times you have received from the Gods grace of the appointed day and you do not use it. Yet now, if never before, you should realize what Universe you are a part of, and as an emanation from what Controller of that Universe you subsist; and that a limit has been set to your time, which if you do not use it to let daylight into your soul, it will be gone and never again shall the chance be yours.”
― Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius
― Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius
“The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.”
― Ideas and Opinions
― Ideas and Opinions
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