"Choose not to be harmed, and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed, and you haven’t been."
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."
"That which is an impediment to action is turned to advance action. The obstacle on the path becomes the way."
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”
"That which isn’t good for the hive, isn’t good for the bee."
"Kindness is invincible, but only when it’s sincere, with no hypocrisy or faking."
"It isn’t manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength."
“In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.”
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
“It is essential for you to remember that the attention you give to any action should be in due proportion to its worth, for then you won’t tire and give up, if you aren’t busying yourself with lesser things beyond what should be allowed.”
“If you find something very difficult to achieve yourself, don’t imagine it impossible — for anything possible and proper for another person can be achieved as easily by you.”
“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.”
“For we are made for cooperation.”
“Don’t return to philosophy as a task-master, but as patients seek out relief in a treatment of sore eyes, or a dressing for a burn, or from an ointment. Regarding it this way, you’ll obey reason without putting it on display and rest easy in its care.”
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