“Receive without pride, relinquish without struggle.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
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“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 2
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 4
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, and do so with all your heart.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
Annie Dillard · The Writing Life, 1989
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
Robert Byrne
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
Maya Angelou
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde · The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
Mae West
