When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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I was astounded at the passion and fire of the melody itself. I could not describe it then, nor can I now. Was it just his voice or something more tangible emerging from his very soul that could arouse such emotion in another person, and bring one's innermost thoughts to life?

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Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, 'I'm possible!' — Audrey Hepburn

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Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'

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If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.

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Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.- J. K. Rowling

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart. ― Marcus Aurelius

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Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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