“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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