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6,714	“Maybe the worst reason to do anything. I got scared.”	motivational
6,715	“I love travelling to places far from civilization. I always feel more civilized when I return.”	motivational
6,716	“When in phase of uncertainty, befriend yourself to a new discovery”	motivational
6,717	“I find that those who have the most to lose are the most motivated”	motivational
6,718	“I will not wait for later or the ‘right time’. There is only this time and I am ready to live in it.”	motivational
6,719	“Don't wait for the right moment. Just get started and learn along the way.”	motivational
6,720	“Don't try to change, be the changeDon't try to be good, be goodDon't try to be a Buddha, be a BuddhaDon't try to be successful, behave successfully”	motivational
6,721	“Life is but an experiment of trial and error, instead of fretting the future, cherish the experiment.”	motivational
6,722	“Always try to avoid looking backward and forward if you want to be upward.”	motivational
6,723	“When I want to do a thing I always can do it.”	motivational
6,724	“The grave tragedies we’ve experienced can help motivate us to unite for a better world.”	motivational
6,725	“Wealth can be created, but time cannot. The wealth you create is contingent on the time you put in. So, use all your time.”	motivational
6,726	“There's only one person better than you, and you see them in the mirror every single day. Never stop being you.”	motivational
6,727	“If you are tired of doing the work.You are tired of winning.”	motivational
6,728	“You aren't able to manifest what you are not doing or becoming.”	motivational
6,729	“Meditation is good for sound mind.”	motivational
6,730	“A growth mindset or a fixed mindset is a function of a person's motivation. A person's motivation shapes what and how he thinks, which in turn tells on his mindset.”	motivational
6,731	“If you want to go forward, You must take action and apply yourself”	motivational
6,732	“Don't doubt your dreams.”	motivational
6,733	“Purposefully pursue your dreams with all diligence.”	motivational
6,734	“Anxiety is never your fault. Neither is it an innate part of who you are. Change is possible.”	motivational
6,735	“There are four types of motivational forces: fear, dreams and desires, fulfilling big ideas, and transforming the world to make a better place to live. The fear and security, driven motivational forces are in the lowest level.”	motivational
6,736	“Human- A Peculiar animal, constantly in a race to prove something; which it’s not.”	motivational
6,737	“Those who are chagrined by their predicaments are incognisant of their higher motivations.”	motivational
6,738	“Spite is a perfectly good motivation.”	motivational
6,739	“Failure and rejections are just words. It is your choice to go ahead and be a champion or to just cry whole life.”	motivational
6,740	“Connection gives us the grace and grit to unleash our potential and endure the challenge of our daily mess.”	motivational
6,741	“To merge on the road you are meant to travel, means making a choice and then taking action.”	motivational
6,742	“The elements of the written word can be purely magical. I read and I write...I inspire and I’m living.”	motivational
6,743	“Inspiration ignites the spark of magic. Creativity is magic.”	motivational
6,744	“A good Athlete may not be a good Coach, likewise, a good Coach may not be a good Athlete”	motivational
6,745	“Gravity is the God and the Sun is the Son of God as our ancestors tried to teach us, they were scientists with unstoppable creativity”	motivational
6,746	“Have no room for people who set you back.”	motivational
6,747	“Faith is a full surrender to the Supreme Being.”	motivational
6,748	“Sometimes what others say about us matters the most.”	motivational
6,749	“Strong, vibrant, positive company culture values their people so greatly that no one feels like just a number.”	motivational
6,750	“Spiritually healthy employees are the greatest asset and partners an organization can have. They are positive, solution-seeking, and unifying people.”	motivational
6,751	“Great leaders understand that it is impossible to compartmentalize elements of life, so they create opportunities for people to grow in every area.”	motivational
6,752	“The ‘purpose’ element of onboarding is where you begin to lay the foundation of success for your new team member.”	motivational
6,753	“People are the lifeblood of any business.”	motivational
6,754	“Believing you can’t find good people is like saying you can’t grow your business.”	motivational
6,755	“Culture has the single greatest impact on your bottom line.”	motivational
6,756	“A strong, positive culture holds us accountable for taking responsibility and finding solutions.”	motivational
6,757	“Leader, you have to know your why, for yourself and your business.”	motivational
6,758	“The magic to recruiting is going to where the people are, and the people are living on social media.”	motivational
6,759	“You want your people recruiting, especially your highest performers.”	motivational
6,760	“This is about designing a culture that is so strong and healthy, your team can’t stay quiet about their experience.”	motivational
6,761	“There is an art to developing people.”	motivational
6,762	“The people within your leadership are a direct reflection of you.”	motivational
6,763	“Behaviour is your character in action”	motivational
6,764	“Hard work does not pay off. Your discipline does.Working hard ones is not enough. Work hard as a habit.”	motivational
6,765	“As a leader, my job as a CEO is Culture + Excellence Officer. My team are proffessionals, they know their job. I just maintain culture and drive excellence.”	motivational
6,766	“Magic will happen, Just distance yourself from negativity.”	motivational
6,767	“When you have done your homework and hard work then let God work on you so you become successful.”	motivational
6,768	“Difficulties only add value to a dream.”	motivational
6,769	“If you get tired, learn to rest not quit.”	motivational
6,770	“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”	stoicism
6,771	“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.”	stoicism
6,772	“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.”	stoicism
6,773	“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”	stoicism
6,774	“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”	stoicism
6,775	“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”	stoicism
6,776	“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”	stoicism
6,777	“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.”	stoicism
6,778	“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”	stoicism
6,779	“Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.”	stoicism
6,780	“People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?”	stoicism
6,781	“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”	stoicism
6,782	“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”	stoicism
6,783	“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha ? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates ? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus ? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than Epicurus ? In what respect was he the superior of Zoroaster ? Was he gentler than Lao-tsze , more universal than Confucius ? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of Zeno ? Did he express grander truths than Cicero ? Was his mind subtler than Spinoza ’s? Was his brain equal to Kepler ’s or Newton ’s? Was he grander in death – a sublimer martyr than Bruno ? Was he in intelligence, in the force and beauty of expression, in breadth and scope of thought, in wealth of illustration, in aptness of comparison, in knowledge of the human brain and heart, of all passions, hopes and fears, the equal of Shakespeare , the greatest of the human race?”	stoicism
6,784	“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”	stoicism
6,785	“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”	stoicism
6,786	“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it? A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.”	stoicism
6,787	“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”	stoicism
6,788	“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”	stoicism
6,789	“Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.”	stoicism
6,790	“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”	stoicism
6,791	“Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely different [as fear and hope] are, the two of them march in unison like a prisoner and the escort he is handcuffed to. Fear keeps pace with hope … both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present.”	stoicism
6,792	“Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realise the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.”	stoicism
6,793	“What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.”	stoicism
6,794	“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”	stoicism
6,795	“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.”	stoicism
6,796	“You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forgetting what manner of man he is.”	stoicism
6,797	“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.”	stoicism
6,798	“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”	stoicism
6,799	“I hear my silence talked of in every lane; The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.”	stoicism
6,800	“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”	stoicism
6,801	“Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.”	stoicism
6,802	“Stop wandering about! You aren't likely to read your own notebooks, or ancient histories, or the anthologies you've collected to enjoy in your old age. Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue-if you care for yourself at all-and do it while you can.”	stoicism
6,803	“Remember two things: i. that everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period; ii. that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have you cannot lose.”	stoicism
6,804	“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.”	stoicism
6,805	“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”	stoicism
6,806	“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”	stoicism
6,807	“I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away from the beatings, from the obscene words, and always knew that if I could run far enough, then any leaf, any insect, any bird, any breeze could bring me to my true home. I knew I did not belong among people. Whatever they hated about me was a human thing; the nonhuman world has always loved me. I can't remember when it was otherwise. But I have been emotionally crippled by this. There is nothing romantic about being young and angry, or even about turning that anger into art. I go through the motions of living in society, but never feel a part of it. When my family threw me away, every human on earth did likewise.”	stoicism
6,808	“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”	stoicism
6,809	“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”	stoicism
6,810	“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, "What are your thinking about?" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”	stoicism
6,811	“If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other.”	stoicism
6,812	“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.”	stoicism
6,813	“It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.”	stoicism

6,714

“Maybe the worst reason to do anything. I got scared.”

motivational

6,715

“I love travelling to places far from civilization. I always feel more civilized when I return.”

motivational

6,716

“When in phase of uncertainty, befriend yourself to a new discovery”

motivational

6,717

“I find that those who have the most to lose are the most motivated”

motivational

6,718

“I will not wait for later or the ‘right time’. There is only this time and I am ready to live in it.”

motivational

6,719

“Don't wait for the right moment. Just get started and learn along the way.”

motivational

6,720

“Don't try to change, be the changeDon't try to be good, be goodDon't try to be a Buddha, be a BuddhaDon't try to be successful, behave successfully”

motivational

6,721

“Life is but an experiment of trial and error, instead of fretting the future, cherish the experiment.”

motivational

6,722

“Always try to avoid looking backward and forward if you want to be upward.”

motivational

6,723

“When I want to do a thing I always can do it.”

motivational

6,724

“The grave tragedies we’ve experienced can help motivate us to unite for a better world.”

motivational

6,725

“Wealth can be created, but time cannot. The wealth you create is contingent on the time you put in. So, use all your time.”

motivational

6,726

“There's only one person better than you, and you see them in the mirror every single day. Never stop being you.”

motivational

6,727

“If you are tired of doing the work.You are tired of winning.”

motivational

6,728

“You aren't able to manifest what you are not doing or becoming.”

motivational

6,729

“Meditation is good for sound mind.”

motivational

6,730

“A growth mindset or a fixed mindset is a function of a person's motivation. A person's motivation shapes what and how he thinks, which in turn tells on his mindset.”

motivational

6,731

“If you want to go forward, You must take action and apply yourself”

motivational

6,732

“Don't doubt your dreams.”

motivational

6,733

“Purposefully pursue your dreams with all diligence.”

motivational

6,734

“Anxiety is never your fault. Neither is it an innate part of who you are. Change is possible.”

motivational

6,735

“There are four types of motivational forces: fear, dreams and desires, fulfilling big ideas, and transforming the world to make a better place to live. The fear and security, driven motivational forces are in the lowest level.”

motivational

6,736

“Human- A Peculiar animal, constantly in a race to prove something; which it’s not.”

motivational

6,737

“Those who are chagrined by their predicaments are incognisant of their higher motivations.”

motivational

6,738

“Spite is a perfectly good motivation.”

motivational

6,739

“Failure and rejections are just words. It is your choice to go ahead and be a champion or to just cry whole life.”

motivational

6,740

“Connection gives us the grace and grit to unleash our potential and endure the challenge of our daily mess.”

motivational

6,741

“To merge on the road you are meant to travel, means making a choice and then taking action.”

motivational

6,742

“The elements of the written word can be purely magical. I read and I write...I inspire and I’m living.”

motivational

6,743

“Inspiration ignites the spark of magic. Creativity is magic.”

motivational

6,744

“A good Athlete may not be a good Coach, likewise, a good Coach may not be a good Athlete”

motivational

6,745

“Gravity is the God and the Sun is the Son of God as our ancestors tried to teach us, they were scientists with unstoppable creativity”

motivational

6,746

“Have no room for people who set you back.”

motivational

6,747

“Faith is a full surrender to the Supreme Being.”

motivational

6,748

“Sometimes what others say about us matters the most.”

motivational

6,749

“Strong, vibrant, positive company culture values their people so greatly that no one feels like just a number.”

motivational

6,750

“Spiritually healthy employees are the greatest asset and partners an organization can have. They are positive, solution-seeking, and unifying people.”

motivational

6,751

“Great leaders understand that it is impossible to compartmentalize elements of life, so they create opportunities for people to grow in every area.”

motivational

6,752

“The ‘purpose’ element of onboarding is where you begin to lay the foundation of success for your new team member.”

motivational

6,753

“People are the lifeblood of any business.”

motivational

6,754

“Believing you can’t find good people is like saying you can’t grow your business.”

motivational

6,755

“Culture has the single greatest impact on your bottom line.”

motivational

6,756

“A strong, positive culture holds us accountable for taking responsibility and finding solutions.”

motivational

6,757

“Leader, you have to know your why, for yourself and your business.”

motivational

6,758

“The magic to recruiting is going to where the people are, and the people are living on social media.”

motivational

6,759

“You want your people recruiting, especially your highest performers.”

motivational

6,760

“This is about designing a culture that is so strong and healthy, your team can’t stay quiet about their experience.”

motivational

6,761

“There is an art to developing people.”

motivational

6,762

“The people within your leadership are a direct reflection of you.”

motivational

6,763

“Behaviour is your character in action”

motivational

6,764

“Hard work does not pay off. Your discipline does.Working hard ones is not enough. Work hard as a habit.”

motivational

6,765

“As a leader, my job as a CEO is Culture + Excellence Officer. My team are proffessionals, they know their job. I just maintain culture and drive excellence.”

motivational

6,766

“Magic will happen, Just distance yourself from negativity.”

motivational

6,767

“When you have done your homework and hard work then let God work on you so you become successful.”

motivational

6,768

“Difficulties only add value to a dream.”

motivational

6,769

“If you get tired, learn to rest not quit.”

motivational

6,770

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”

stoicism

6,771

“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.”

stoicism

6,772

“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.”

stoicism

6,773

“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”

stoicism

6,774

“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”

stoicism

6,775

“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”

stoicism

6,776

“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”

stoicism

6,777

“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.”

stoicism

6,778

“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”

stoicism

6,779

“Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.”

stoicism

6,780

“People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?”

stoicism

6,781

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”

stoicism

6,782

“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”

stoicism

6,783

“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha ? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates ? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus ? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than Epicurus ? In what respect was he the superior of Zoroaster ? Was he gentler than Lao-tsze , more universal than Confucius ? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of Zeno ? Did he express grander truths than Cicero ? Was his mind subtler than Spinoza ’s? Was his brain equal to Kepler ’s or Newton ’s? Was he grander in death – a sublimer martyr than Bruno ? Was he in intelligence, in the force and beauty of expression, in breadth and scope of thought, in wealth of illustration, in aptness of comparison, in knowledge of the human brain and heart, of all passions, hopes and fears, the equal of Shakespeare , the greatest of the human race?”

stoicism

6,784

“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”

stoicism

6,785

“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”

stoicism

6,786

“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it? A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.”

stoicism

6,787

“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”

stoicism

6,788

“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”

stoicism

6,789

“Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.”

stoicism

6,790

“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”

stoicism

6,791

“Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely different [as fear and hope] are, the two of them march in unison like a prisoner and the escort he is handcuffed to. Fear keeps pace with hope … both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present.”

stoicism

6,792

“Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realise the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.”

stoicism

6,793

“What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.”

stoicism

6,794

“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”

stoicism

6,795

“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.”

stoicism

6,796

“You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forgetting what manner of man he is.”

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6,797

“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.”

stoicism

6,798

“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”

stoicism

6,799

“I hear my silence talked of in every lane; The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.”

stoicism

6,800

“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”

stoicism

6,801

“Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.”

stoicism

6,802

“Stop wandering about! You aren't likely to read your own notebooks, or ancient histories, or the anthologies you've collected to enjoy in your old age. Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue-if you care for yourself at all-and do it while you can.”

stoicism

6,803

“Remember two things: i. that everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period; ii. that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have you cannot lose.”

stoicism

6,804

“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.”

stoicism

6,805

“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”

stoicism

6,806

“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”

stoicism

6,807

“I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away from the beatings, from the obscene words, and always knew that if I could run far enough, then any leaf, any insect, any bird, any breeze could bring me to my true home. I knew I did not belong among people. Whatever they hated about me was a human thing; the nonhuman world has always loved me. I can't remember when it was otherwise. But I have been emotionally crippled by this. There is nothing romantic about being young and angry, or even about turning that anger into art. I go through the motions of living in society, but never feel a part of it. When my family threw me away, every human on earth did likewise.”

stoicism

6,808

“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”

stoicism

6,809

“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”

stoicism

6,810

“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, "What are your thinking about?" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”

stoicism

6,811

“If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other.”

stoicism

6,812

“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.”

stoicism

6,813

“It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.”

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