“The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning, but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel.”
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“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky;
The dew shall weep thy fall tonight,
For thou must die.”
― The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert
The bridal of the earth and sky;
The dew shall weep thy fall tonight,
For thou must die.”
― The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert
“If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
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