From Rumi: “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
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Quote of the day 02/13/25
From Rumi: “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
Quote of the day 02/10/25
From Thích Nhất Hạnh: “The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.”
Quote of the day 01/25/25
From Marcus Aurelius: “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.”
Quote of the day 01/24/25
From Marcus Aurelius: “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Quote of the day 01/23/25
From Marcus Aurelius: “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.”
Quote of the day 01/06/25
From William Blake: “Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”
Quote of the day 12/20/24
From Bertrand Russell: “The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
Quote of the day 12/14/24
From Friedrich Nietzsche: “You tell me: ‘Life is hard to bear.’ But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?”
Quote of the day 11/10/24
From Heraclitus: “To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.”
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