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Holding Onto Anger Is Like Drinking Poison and Expecting the Other Person to Die.
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Alex Romayev
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“Nothing stops this train “
-Lyn Alden
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“Stick to the plan.
Not your mood.”
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"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus, 6.4311
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"Just as the athlete gave new strength and form to his body by means of repeated bodily exercises, so the philosopher developed his strength of soul by means of philosophical exercises, and transforms himself... Exercises of body and soul thus combined to shape the true person: free, strong, and independent."
- Pierre Hadot, What is Ancient Philosophy?
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"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
Epictetus
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Many spiritual seekers live on a steady diet of spiritual junk food.
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"Treat what you don't have as nonexistent." —
Marcus Aurelius
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"Some poor, phoneless fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere totally unaware of how angry and scared he's supposed to be.'
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—Duncan Trusell
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"There are more things that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.
— Seneca, Epistulae Morales, XIII.4
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Welcome events in whichever way they happen:
this is the path to peace.
- Epictetus
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"Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today."
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My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon.
蔵焼けて
障るものなき
月見かな
ーMizuta Masahide （水田正秀，1657-1723），
samurai and poet
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"Personally, I say that virtue is more valuable than wealth to the same degree that eyes are more valuable than fingernails." - Epictetus
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"Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own."
MARCUS AURELIUS
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"He who cannot obey himself will be commanded."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult
things easily.
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A SMOOTH SEA
NEVER MADE
A SKILLED SAILOR
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THE MOUSE DIES IN THE MOUSE TRAP BECAUSE IT DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHY THE CHEESE IS FREE.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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"If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining." - Marcus Aurelius