A THREAD on timeless insightful ideas by Marcus Aurelius:
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.
The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.
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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.
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.
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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
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How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control.
These things are not asking to be judged by you.
Leave them alone.
You always own the option of having no opinion.
There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control.
These things are not asking to be judged by you.
Leave them alone.
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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Never let the future disturb you.
You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Never let the future disturb you.
You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed.
It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed.
It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
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