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.”
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Quote of the day 06/22/24
From Zhuangzi: “The Consummate Person uses his mind like a mirror, rejecting nothing, welcoming nothing: responding but not storing. Thus he can handle all things without harm.”
Quote of the day 04/10/24
From Ernest Hemingway: “Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.”
Quote of the day 03/23/24
From Cormac McCarthy: ‘Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.”
Quote of the day 11/18/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …”
Quote of the day 11/17/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “[I have learned] To read with diligence; not to rest satisfied with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly to assent to things commonly spoken of.”
Quote of the day 11/10/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “The mind freed from passions is an impenetrable fortress—a person has no more secure place of refuge for all time.”
Quote of the day 11/09/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
Quote of the day 09/19/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
Quote of the day 09/16/23
From Epictetus: “The soul is like the bowl of water, with the soul’s impressions like the rays of light that strike the water. Now, if the water is disturbed, the light appears to be disturbed together with it — though of course it is not. So when someone loses consciousness, it is not the person’sContinue reading “Quote of the day 09/16/23”
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